Converting from shell to python

Ritesh Nadhani riteshn at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 12:02:08 EST 2011


Hello

cmd is already a list after cmd.split().

So,

suprocess.Popen(cmd, ....)

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Rita <rmorgan466 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using shell for a "long" time and I decided to learn python
> recently. So far I am liking it a lot especially the argparse module which
> makes my programs more professional like.
>
>
> Currently, I am rewriting my bash scripts to python so I came across a
> subprocess and environment problem.
>
> My bash script looks like this,
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>
> export JAVA_HOME="/opt/java"
> export  PROG="dbconn"
> export JAVA_ARGS="-Xmx16g"
> export ARGS="-out outdata.dat"
>
> $JAVA_HOME $JAVA_ARGS $PROG $ARGS
>
>
> To convert this into python I did something like this (which isn't working
> properly)
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import subprocess,os
> def execute():
>   try:
>
>     cmd="$JAVA_HOME $JAVA_ARGS $PROG $ARGS"
>     cmd=cmd.split()
>
> p=subprocess.Popen([cmd],env={"JAVA_HOME":"/opt/java","PROG":"dbconn","JAVA_ARGS":"-Xmx16g","ARGS":"-out
> outdata.dat"},
>          stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
>   except OSError, e:
>    print >>sys.stderr," Execution failed: ",e
>  return p.stdout
>
>
> So, I was wondering if this is the correct way of doing it? or is there an
> alternative?
>
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