Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

2007-03-15 Thread William Hudspeth
Hello, I am needing to pass an argument to the Popen function of the Subprocess module that includes a wildcard in the filename. It seems that Popen is not able to expand wildcards, and treats a filename that includes a wildcard as a literal. EX. var1=/path_to_files/filnames*.doc

Re: Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

2007-03-15 Thread William Hudspeth
Hello Mike, Thanks for responding. I need to pass multiple filenames to an executable. The filenames are similar to one another, but differ only slightly, hence the use of the wildcard. The executable works well from the command line if I pass in a wildcard filename, but Popen can't expand the