Request Help With Function

[Wildman]

On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:54:56 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Wildman via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>     commandlist = commandlist.split(",")
> 
> commandlist is a list.
> 
>>                 command = [target, commandlist]
>>                 subprocess.Popen(command)
> 
> This is passing a list containing two elements: the first is a string,
> and the second is a list of strings. You should just pass a list of
> strings. Probably you wanted to do this:
> 
>     command = [target] + commandlist

Thank you, that fixed the problem.  It did occur to me that the
problem was in how "command" was put together but I wasn't sure.
A rookie mistake from a rookie.  Whoda thunk it?

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