os system command not found

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:25:52 -0800, codicedave wrote:

> Hi all!
> I installed a external program called infomap using the classical
> procedure
> 
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
> 
>  and it works perfectly in Terminal (Os x) using both bash and tcsh
> shell

What happens when you call it using the sh shell (which is not 
necessarily aliased to bash)?



[...]
>  but when I call it from python using os.system or subprocess.call I
> get the message "sh: infomap-build: command not found".
> 
> Do you know why?

Possibly sh uses a different path to bash and can't find infomap-build.



-- 
Steven