Calling subprocess with arguments

[Tyler Laing]

It appears to be an issue specifically with VLC, not subprocess. Thank you
guys. The remote interface works through sockets, which is perfectly fine...
if I create a local socket, I can have it connect to the socket with command
line arguments.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Tyler Laing <trinioler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, XD. I'll ask the VLC people if they happen to know why VLC won't
> open up the remote interface.
>
> -Tyler
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:00:28 +0600
>> Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:28:17 -0700
>> > Tyler Laing <trinioler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Thanks mike, the idea that maybe some of the info isn't being passed
>> is
>> > > certainly interesting.
>> > >
>> > > Here's the output of os.environ and sys.argv:
>> > >
>> > ...
>> >
>> > I'm afraid these doesn't make much sense without the output from the
>> > second results, from py itself. My suggestion was just to compare them
>> > - pop the py shell, eval the outputs into two sets, do the diff and
>> > you'll see it at once.
>> > If there's an empty set then I guess it's pretty safe to assume that
>> > python creates subprocess in the same way the shell does.
>>
>> Just thought of one more really simple thing I've missed: vlc might
>> expect it's remote to work with tty, so when py shoves it a pipe
>> instead, it automatically switches to non-interactive mode.
>>
>> You can remedy that a bit by superclassing subprocess.Popen, replacing
>> pipes with pty, but they are quite hard to work with, prehaps pexpect
>> module would be of some use there:
>>
>>  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect/
>>
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