Oh, good to know! Neat. :)
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Xavier Lapointe
<xl.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, but this can have nasty side effects (recently experienced it). Someone
> pointed out to me that you can actually pass the env keyword argument in the
> subprocess call and pass a copy of the current environment instead (with
> necessary modifications).
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregt...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey X,
>>
>> About the 3rd item, you just need to make sure the system libraries are
>> loaded before XSI's own by putting them first in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> environment variable.
>>
>> Here's a workaround sample code to start subprocesses in Linux that worked
>> for me last time:
>>
>> import os
>> import subprocess
>>
>> inLinux = Application.Platform.startswith("Linux")
>> if inLinux:
>> exe = XSIUtils.BuildPath( pDir, executable)
>> ldEnv = "LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
>> sysLibDir = r"/usr/lib64"
>> ld_oldVal = os.environ[ldEnv]
>> os.environ[ldEnv] = sysLibDir+":"+os.environ[ldEnv]
>>
>> command = r'/path/to/awesome/tool blablabla arguments here'
>> proc = subprocess.Popen( command.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
>> stderr=subprocess.PIPE )
>> out, err = proc.communicate()
>> print "stdout: %s" % out
>> print "return code: %s" % err
>>
>> if inLinux:
>> # Reset to old values like the good samaritan coder we are. :p
>> os.environ[ldEnv] = ld_oldVal
>>
>>
>> As a matter of fact, it was thanks to you that I figured this one out at
>> the time. :p
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Alan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Xavier Lapointe
>> <xl.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You might have to import __future__ in order to have access to some
>>> statement like with
>>> The @property decorator does not work
>>> Keep in mind that if you use a newer version of linux that the one
>>> supported, you might have trouble starting subprocesses, since the libc
>>> version coming with soft will override the one on the system (but it's still
>>> possible).
>>> For plugins it should be too bad, but for libs, I would consider running
>>> some unittest if I were you
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Xavier
