Send alt key to subprocess.PIPE stdin

[Wanderer]

On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 4:23:57 PM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 11/9/2013 10:26, Wanderer wrote:
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> > How do I send the command 'Alt+D' to subprocess.PIPE?
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> That's not a command, it's a keystroke combination.  And without knowing
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> what RSConfig.exe is looking to get its keystrokes, it might not even be
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> possible to feed it any keystrokes via the pipe.
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> if the program does indeed use stdin, there's no portable encoding for
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> Alt-D.  But if your program only runs on one particular platform, you
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> might be able to find docs for that platform that explain it.
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> > My code is
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> > import subprocess
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> > rsconfig = subprocess.Popen(["C:\Program Files\Photometrics\PVCam64\utilities\RSConfig\RSConfig.exe", ],stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
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> That string will only work by accident.  You need to make it a raw
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> string, or use forward slashes, or double them.  As it happens, with
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> this PARTICULAR set of directories, you won't get into trouble with
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> Python 2.7.3
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> DaveA

Thanks, I didn't know that. I thought there would be some \n \t kind of combination or a unicode string for all the key combinations on my keyboard.