joep wrote: > > Tim Golden wrote: > >> subprocess.call ([ >> >> r"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\acro reader.exe", >> >> r"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acr >> obat 5.0\Reader\plug_ins.donotuse\Annotations\Stamps\abc def.pdf" >> >> ]) >> >> Can you confirm that something equivalent *doesn't* work on your >> setup? Or have I misunderstood your point earlier? I'd really >> like to get to the point where we can definitively state: this >> works (and possibly: that doesn't). >> >> Thanks >> TJG > > This works without problems for me on Windows XP, Python 2.4.3
OK. That's good, at least. > I often had problems understanding subprocess.Popen and getting it to > work. I usually have to go back-and-forth between worked examples, I admit. [... snip problem with Popen ...] Ah. I assumed that .call simply handed off to Popen. I'll do some looking into that in case I need to add a warning to the webpage. (And, maybe, a bug report). Thanks for following this up. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list