Calling subprocess with arguments

[Tyler Laing]

So no one has an answer for why passing flags and the values the flags need
through subprocess does not work? I would like an answer. I've examined all
the examples I could find online, which were all toy examples, and not
helpful to my problem.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Tyler Laing <trinioler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been trying any variation I can think of to do this properly, but
> here's my problem:
>
> I want to execute this command string: vlc -I rc
>
> This allows vlc to be controlled via  a remote interface instead of the
> normal gui interface.
>
> Now, say, I try this from subprocess:
>
> >>>p=subprocess.Popen('vlc -I rc test.avi'.split(' '), shell=False,
> stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>
> But I don't get the remote interface. I get the normal gui interface. So
> how do I do it? I've tried passing ['vlc', '-I', 'rc'], I've tried ['-I',
> 'rc'] with executable set to 'vlc'. I've had shell=True, I've had
> shell=False. I've tried all these combinations.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
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