On Friday, May 27, 2011 3:19:22 PM UTC-7, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 14:25 -0700, suresh wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to execute the following command line stuff from inside python. > > $cd directory > > $./executable > > > > I tried the following but I get errors > > import subprocess > > subprocess.check_call('cd dir_name;./executable') > > > > Due to filename path issues, I cannot try this version. > > subprocess.check_call('./dir_name/executable') > > > > You don't want to do this because "cd" is a built-in shell command, and > subprocess does not execute within a shell (by default). > > The proper way to do this is to use the "cwd" keyword argument to > subprocess calls, i.e.: > > >>> subprocess.check_call(('/path/to/exec',), cwd="/path/to/dir") > > -a
It works. thank you very much. I have been struggling with this for a veryyyyy long time. suresh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list