On Feb 5, 6:33 pm, Ashok Prabhu <ashokprab...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Oops i missed the braces. But still no output. >>> p1=Popen(['/usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk','-d'],stdout=PIPE) >>> while 1: ... a=p1.stdout.readline() ... print a ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list