os system command not found

[Diez B. Roggisch]

codicedave wrote:

> On 14 Gen, 13:16, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
> cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> in                 infocmp            infotocap          installer
> indent             infokey            install            instmodsh
> indxbib            infomap-build      install-info       instruments
> info               infomap-install    install_name_tool
> sh-3.2$ infomap-build
> 
> Usage: infomap-build [-w working_dir] [-p param_file]
>        [-D var_1=val_1 ... -D var_N=val_N]
>        (-s single_corpus_file | -m multi_file_list)
>        <model_tag>
> 
> sh-3.2$
> 
> I am not able to figure out why..
> 
> any idea?

How about you give the full path to the executable? Might be that the PATH
isn't set correctly. If you installed the software by yourself, it is very
likely that it ended up in 

/usr/local/bin

instead of /usr/bin, and the former might not be part of the PATH-variable.

Diez