Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> writes: > On May 19, 9:27 pm, Carbon <nob...@nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > subprocess.call(["/opt/2X/Client/bin/appserverclient", "-u > > fieldValues [0]", "-p fieldValues[1]", "-s ts.mycompany.org:80", "-d > > corp", "-S local", "-c 16", "-e 0xF", "-l 0x0409", "-a #1"])
As Patrick says, you need to give the arguments to the command as the shell would pass them. That means option arguments separate from value arguments, etc. > I think, for example, instead of "-d corp", you want "-d" and "corp" > in your list. Right. > I usually make a string like I would pass to bash, and then do > .split() on it to get the list. This works fine unless you need > embedded spaces anywhere. Better is to use ‘shlex.split’ to split the string as a shell parser would do <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/shlex#shlex.split>. -- \ “Not using Microsoft products is like being a non-smoker 40 or | `\ 50 years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's | _o__) hard to avoid second-hand smoke.” —Michael Tiemann | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
