subprocess running ant

[Chris Rebert]

> From: MRAB
> On 03/03/2011 18:14, Thom Hehl wrote:
>> I am attempting to write a python script that will check out and build
>> our code, then deploy the executable. It will report any failures via
>> e-mail.
>>
>> To this end, I'm trying to run my ant build from inside of python. I
>> have tried the following:
>>
>> proc = subprocess.Popen(ant -version')
>>
>> proc = subprocess.Popen(call ant -version')
>>
>> These both generate:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "C:\Users\thom\Documents\workspace\autobuild\build.py", line 19,
> in
>> <module>
>> proc = subprocess.Popen('call ant -version')
>>
>> File "C:\Python32\lib\subprocess.py", line 736, in __init__
>> restore_signals, start_new_session)
>>
>> File "C:\Python32\lib\subprocess.py", line 946, in _execute_child
>> startupinfo)
>>
>> WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
>>
>> If I run python from the command prompt and generate this error, I
> turn
>> around immediately and run ant -version and it works fine, so it's not
> a
>> path issue.
>>
>> Please help?
>>
> Try passing the command line arguments as a list of strings:
>
>     proc = subprocess.Popen(['call', 'ant', '-version'])
>
> You might need to provide the full path of 'ant'.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Thom Hehl <Thom at pointsix.com> wrote:
> Actually, I just figured out the issue is that I need to run ant.bat
> instead of just ant. :(
>
> This isn't going to work because I wanted to run something that would be
> system independent. So I found the runant.py and I'm trying to figure
> out how to call it.
>
> I tried import runant but it can't find the file. I tried reading the
> documentation, but it doesn't say how it builds the search path for
> imported items.

Yes it does:
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-search-path
http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONPATH

Cheers,
Chris