Problem with execv

[Michael Hudson]

Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at beopen.com> writes:

> The correct calling convention is to supply a tuple or list as the
> second argument to execv.  Example:
> 
> >>> os.execv('/bin/ls', ('.',))
> [lists contents of current directory]

ITYM

>>> os.execv('/bin/ls',('ls','.'))

or some such.  There's also

>>> os.execlp('ls','ls','.')

and many other variants...

Cheers,
M.

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