subprocess running ant

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Mar 3, 2011 1:19 PM, "Thom Hehl" <Thom at pointsix.com> wrote:
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> I am attempting to write a python script that will check out and build our
code, then deploy the executable. It will report any failures via e-mail.
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> To this end, I’m trying to run my ant build from inside of python. I have
tried the following:
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> proc = subprocess.Popen(ant -version')
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> proc = subprocess.Popen(call ant -version')
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> These both generate:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>   File "C:\Users\thom\Documents\workspace\autobuild\build.py", line 19, in
<module>
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>     proc = subprocess.Popen('call ant -version')
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>   File "C:\Python32\lib\subprocess.py", line 736, in __init__
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>     restore_signals, start_new_session)
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>   File "C:\Python32\lib\subprocess.py", line 946, in _execute_child
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>     startupinfo)
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> WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
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> If I run python from the command prompt and generate this error, I turn
around immediately and run ant –version and it works fine, so it’s not a
path issue.
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> Please help?
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By default, suborocess just spawns a new processes. It does not go through
the shell, so you have no path. Try adding shell=true to the Popen call.
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