Jovik added the comment: As requested I did extra tests with extension. Same result as before: >>> proc = subprocess.Popen("plink.exe", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, >>> cwd="c:\\python33\\workspace") >>> proc = subprocess.Popen(".\plink.exe", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, >>> cwd="c:\\python33\\workspace") >>> proc = subprocess.Popen(".\\plink.exe", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, >>> cwd="c:\\python33\\workspace") >>> proc = subprocess.Popen(".\plink.exe", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, >>> cwd="c:/python33/workspace") >>> proc = subprocess.Popen("plink.exe", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, >>> cwd="c:/python33/workspace")
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python33\lib\subprocess.py", line 1104, in _execute_child startupinfo) FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python33\lib\subprocess.py", line 819, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "C:\Python33\lib\subprocess.py", line 1110, in _execute_child raise WindowsError(*e.args) FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified I believe it's a wider issue, since my colleagues insisted on using shell=True on Windows by default (I didn't understand why, until now) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20927> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com