how to use subprocess to execute an exe with args and an output
Chris Rebert
clp2 at rebertia.com
Wed Jan 30 12:57:24 EST 2013
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:15 AM, noydb <jenn.duerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for some guidance on using subprocess to execute an EXE with arguments and an output. The below code works in that it returns a 0 exit code, but no output file is created. I have tried a few different versions of this code (used Popen instead, some stderr/stdout), but no luck. Can anyone offer an explanation or suggestion? (GPSBabel is freeware)
> Python 2.7 on windows7 64-bit
>
> import subprocess
> subprocess.call([r"C:\Program Files (x86)\GPSBabel\gpsbabel.exe",
> "-i", "gdb", "-f", r"C:\Temp\GDBdata\testgps28.gdb",
> "-o", "gpx", r"C:\Temp\gpx\test28output.gpx"])
If my cursory reading of GPSBabel's documentation is right, you're
missing a "-F" before the output filepath. Try:
subprocess.call([
r"C:\Program Files (x86)\GPSBabel\gpsbabel.exe",
"-i", "gdb",
"-f", r"C:\Temp\GDBdata\testgps28.gdb",
"-o", "gpx",
"-F", r"C:\Temp\gpx\test28output.gpx",
])
Regards,
Chris
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