davidgo...@davidgould.com wrote:
> I'm attempting to run subprocess and passing in an environment
> variable. When I do this the child process fails with an error. When I
> don't pass an environement variable it runs fine.
>
> BTW Running this code under Windows XP with Python 2.6.1
>
> Code A:
>
> p = subprocess.Popen( ['python', '-V'], env={ 'PYTHONPATH': 'C:/
> Documents and Settings/David Gould/workspace/DgTools/Common/Trunk/
> Source' } )
> print p.communicate()[0]
> print p.returncode
>
> Output:
>
> None
> -1072365564
>
> Code B:
>
> p = subprocess.Popen( ['python', '-V'] )
> print p.communicate()[0]
> print p.returncode
>
> Output:
>
> Python 2.6.1
> 0
>
> Any idea why passing an environment variable causes it to fail?
> Thanks.
>
Are you sure it's not the path within the dict you're passing that's wrong?
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