On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get it, you instantiate an object, call a method and get a tuple in > response. However, here is what I see: > >>>> process.communicate() > (b'~/Library/Preferences/iCab/iCab 4 Bookmarks: Permission denied\n', > b'') > > So all I get is the string and no error message, which is the same > thing I get with the simpler subprocess.call(). I can parse out the > error out and handle it if I need to. Is this a failing in the OSX > plutil tool? > > -- Gnarlie > --
Were you expecting a Python error? That's not how POSIX shells work. A process that fails just gives you a non-zero return code, not an exception. You can call process.poll() to get the return code. > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list