subprocess "handle is invalid" error

[Daniel Serodio]

Thomas Heller-2 wrote:
> 
> Grant Edwards schrieb:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> 
>>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "surfedit.py", line 28, in ?
>>     File "Gnuplot\_Gnuplot.pyc", line 178, in __init__
>>     File "Gnuplot\gp_win32.pyc", line 117, in __init__
>>     File "subprocess.pyc", line 533, in __init__
>>     File "subprocess.pyc", line 607, in _get_handles
>>     File "subprocess.pyc", line 634, in _make_inheritable
>>   WindowsError: [Errno 6] The handle is invalid
>> 
>> How does one troubleshoot errors that happen three layers deep
>> in the subprocess module?
>> 
> 
> I think this is a subprocess bug.  It is often attributed to py2exe
> because
> usually developers do never run the script in pythonW.exe instead of
> python.exe,
> and later build a *windows* program with py2exe (the *windows* program has
> no
> console, and that triggers the bug).
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I thought that this bug was fixed in Python2.5.1 (the release candidate),
> but it seems it wasn't.  The bug is at 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1124861&group_id=5470&atid=105470
> 
> If all this is correct, I hope that someone adds a section to the py2exe
> wiki;
> and reopens the above bug report.
> 
> Thomas
> 
I've been bitten by this same bug in 2.5.1, and the bug you linked to (which
is now @ http://bugs.python.org/issue1124861) is still marked as fixed.

I've tried to reopen it but it seems only the reporter (or some "admin"
user) is able to do it.

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