[Tutor] Expanding a variable with subprocess on Windows

[Sander Sweers]

On Tue,   8 Mar 2011, 07:44:31 CET, Becky Mcquilling <ladymcse2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> gpg = 'c:/program files (x86)/gnu/gnupg/gpg2.exe'
> gpg = 'c:/program files (x86)/gnu/gnupg/gpg2.exe'
> 
> subprocess.Popen('gpg', shell=True)
> 
> It fails to run gpg and is not expanding the variable.   Is there a way
> to do this that I'm missing?

What you are doing is running Popen with a string 'gpg' instead of the variable gpg. The below should do the trick.

subprocess.Popen(gpg, shell=True) # notice no single quotes

Also you usually do not need a shell and I expect your use case runs fine without it.

Greets
sander
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