piping with subprocess

[Mark Lawrence]

On 01/02/2014 13:54, Rick Dooling wrote:
> On Saturday, February 1, 2014 6:54:09 AM UTC-6, Peter Otten wrote:
>> Rick Dooling wrote:
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>>> I spent half a day trying to convert this bash script (on Mac)
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>>> textutil -convert html $1 -stdout | pandoc -f html -t markdown -o $2
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>>> into Python using subprocess pipes.
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>>> It works if I save the above into a shell script called convert.sh and
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>>> then do
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>>> subprocess.check_call(["convert.sh", file, markdown_file])
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>>> where file and markdown_file are variables.
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>>>
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>>> But otherwise my piping attempts fail.
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>> It is always a good idea to post your "best effort" failed attempt, if only
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>> to give us an idea of your level of expertise.
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>>> Could someone show me how to pipe in subprocess. Yes, I've read the doc,
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>>> especially
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>>> http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#replacing-shell-pipeline
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>>> But I'm a feeble hobbyist, not a computer scientist.
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>> Try to convert the example from the above page
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>> """
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>> output=`dmesg | grep hda`
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>> # becomes
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>> p1 = Popen(["dmesg"], stdout=PIPE)
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>> p2 = Popen(["grep", "hda"], stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=PIPE)
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>> p1.stdout.close()  # Allow p1 to receive a SIGPIPE if p2 exits.
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>> output = p2.communicate()[0]
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>> """
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>> to your usecase. Namely, replace
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>> ["dmesg"] --> ["textutil", "-convert", "html", infile, "-stdout"]
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>> ["grep", "hda"] --> ["pandoc", "-f", "html", "-t", "marktown", "-o",
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>>                       outfile]
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>> Don't forget to set
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>> infile = ...
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>> outfile = ...
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>> to filenames (with absolute paths, to avoid one source of error).
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>> If that doesn't work post the code you wrote along with the error messages.

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Mark Lawrence