On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 4:23:57 PM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote: > On 11/9/2013 10:26, Wanderer wrote: > > > > > How do I send the command 'Alt+D' to subprocess.PIPE? > > > > That's not a command, it's a keystroke combination. And without knowing > > what RSConfig.exe is looking to get its keystrokes, it might not even be > > possible to feed it any keystrokes via the pipe. > > > > if the program does indeed use stdin, there's no portable encoding for > > Alt-D. But if your program only runs on one particular platform, you > > might be able to find docs for that platform that explain it. > > > > > > > > My code is > > > > > > import subprocess > > > rsconfig = subprocess.Popen(["C:\Program > > Files\Photometrics\PVCam64\utilities\RSConfig\RSConfig.exe", > > ],stdin=subprocess.PIPE) > > > > That string will only work by accident. You need to make it a raw > > string, or use forward slashes, or double them. As it happens, with > > this PARTICULAR set of directories, you won't get into trouble with > > Python 2.7.3 > > > > > > > > -- > > DaveA
Thanks, I didn't know that. I thought there would be some \n \t kind of combination or a unicode string for all the key combinations on my keyboard. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
