On Mar 27, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I am trying to replace os.system calls with subprocess.Popen. This > simple > example fails miserably: > >>>> proc = subprocess.Popen ("ls /tmp") > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "/home/titan/skipm/local/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line > 594, in __init__ > errread, errwrite) > File "/home/titan/skipm/local/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line > 1091, in > _execute_child > raise child_exception > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > I also tried explicitly referencing /usr/bin/ls. Same result. > What gives? > I see this behavior in both Python 2.4 and 2.5 on Solaris 10 and with > 2.6alpha on Mac OS X. >
Try proc = subprocess.Popen(('ls', '/tmp/')) or proc = subprocess.Popen('ls /tmp/', shell=True) See http://docs.python.org/lib/node528.html HTH, --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list