Newbie Alert: subprocess.call
Carbon
nobrac at nospam.tampabay.rr.com
Wed May 19 22:27:39 EDT 2010
I am new to Python and am trying to write a GUI wrapper script in python
2.5 to get username and passwords from Linux users to send as options to
run an app on a 2X terminal server. I came across the easygui module and
its multpasswordbox function, which made popping a dialog box and storing
the usernames very painless.
However, subprocess.call as implemented below doesn't work. For some
reason the "-s ts.mycompany.org:80" parameter is being interpreted
differently by the application when sent from the python script than it
does when sent from the BASH script below. The :80 is the default port so
it isn't technically required, but the script doesn't work without it
either.
Any ideas where I should look? Is subprocess.call the best way to do what
I want? Any advice would be most appreciated.
Here's the broken bit:
print "Reply was:", fieldValues
print "Reply was:", fieldValues[0], fieldValues[1]
subprocess.call(["/opt/2X/Client/bin/appserverclient", "-u fieldValues
[0]", "-p fieldValues[1]", "-s ts.mycompany.org:80", "-d corp", "-S
local", "-c 16", "-e 0xF", "-l 0x0409", "-a #1"])
Output:
me at work:~/bin$ ./demo2.py
Reply was: ['MyUsername', 'MyPassword']
Reply was: MyUsername MyPassword
ERROR in CTcpConnector: ts.mycompany.org: unable to resolve host
Error 7: TCP/IP connection: unable to resolve host.
This BASH script runs correctly:
me at work:~/bin$ cat 2xconnect
#!/bin/bash
USER=$1
PASS=$2
/opt/2X/Client/bin/appserverclient \
-u "$USER" \
-p "$PASS" \
-s ts.mycompany.org:80 \
-d corp \
-S local \
-c 16 \
-e 0xF \
-l 0x0409 \
-m 2G \
-a "#1"
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