Re: Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

William Hudspeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] 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

Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

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

On Mar 15, 2:04 pm, William Hudspeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

You could use glob and expand the resulting list to astring manually, but you have to make sure the command accepts the command file1 file2 file3... format. FZero On Mar 15, 4:04 pm, William Hudspeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am needing to pass an argument to the Popen function of the

Re: Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

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