Bugs item #1759845, was opened at 2007-07-24 14:24 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1759845&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Matt (mclausch) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: subprocess.call fails with unicode strings in command line Initial Comment: On Windows, subprocess.call() fails with an exception if either the executable or any of the arguments contain upper level characters. See below: >>> cmd = [ u'test_\xc5_exec.bat', u'arg1', u'arg2' ] >>> subprocess.call(cmd) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 443, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "C:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 593, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "C:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 815, in _execute_child startupinfo) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc5' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1759845&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com