lpr via subprocess in 2.4

[loial]

I am am trying to run the following command via subprocess

lpr -P printqueue filetoprint

I cannot seem to get it to work and return stderr

I think the issue is how to specify the arguments

I am trying

subprocess.Popen(['lpr -P' ,'laserlpr','/etc/hosts'], shell=False)

but get error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testopen.py", line 6, in ?
    subprocess.Popen(['lpr -P' ,'laserlpr','/etc/hosts'], shell=False)
  File "/usr/python2.4/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 558, in __in
it__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/python2.4/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 991, in _exe
cute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory