also, i've tried the Shell=True parameter for Popen, but that didn't seem to make a difference
On Mar 25, 8:31 pm, skunkwerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > i'm trying to call subprocess.popen on the 'rename' function in > linux. When I run the command from the shell, like so: > > rename -vn 's/\.htm$/\.html/' *.htm > > it works fine... however when I try to do it in python like so: > p = subprocess.Popen(["rename","-vn","'s/\.htm$/ > \.html/'","*.htm"],stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE) > > print p.communicate()[0] > > nothing gets printed out (even for p.communicate()[1]) > > I think the problem is the quoted string the rename command wants - > when I put it in triple quotes like """s/\.htm$/\.html/""" I get some > output, but not the correct output. I've also tried escaping the > single quotes with \' and putting it in regular double quotes but that > didn't work either. > > i'd appreciate any help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list