R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

Ah, I see.  Agreed with the closing, then.

Cal: one way to debug this kind of thing is to try the same command with 
shell=True.  Then the shell will generate its special error message.

Changing the title back to something that might be recognizable to others who 
run into this problem.

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resolution:  -> invalid
stage:  -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed
title: subprocess loses stderr information when _execute_child fails -> 
subprocess throws wrong exception if script can't be executed

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