On Feb 5, 5:58 pm, Alain Ketterlin <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote: > Ashok Prabhu <ashokprab...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > p1=Popen('/usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk -d',stdout=PIPE,shell=True) > > >> Use Popen(['/usr/...','-d'],stdout=PIPE), i.e., no shell. > > >> -- Alain. > > Thanks for the response. However it throws an error. Please find > > below. > > >>>> from subprocess import * > >>>> p1=Popen('/usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk -d',stdout=PIPE) > > You forgot to change the monolithic command into a list of words. Since > you don't use the shell anymore you have to give Popen a pre-parsed > command line. > > -- Alain.
Here is the error again >>> p1=Popen('/usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk','-d',stdout=PIPE) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 494, in __init__ raise TypeError("bufsize must be an integer") TypeError: bufsize must be an integer ~Ashok. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list