bufsize must be an integer in subprocess.Popen

INADA Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 07:17:57 EST 2015


When `shell=True`, the first argument should be string passed to shell.
So you should:

proc1=subprocess.Popen("/root/Desktop/abc.py 64 abc",
    shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Robert Clove <cloverobert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using the Linux system with python, i am running the following script
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
>
>
> import threading
>
> import time
>
> import sys
> import subprocess
> import datetime
> import os
> import time
> import logging
>
>
>
> proc1=subprocess.Popen("/root/Desktop/abc.py","64","abc",shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>
>
> In this script i am calling the other script named abc.py which is
> located on the desktop with 64 and abc as its arguments
> I am getting the following error
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 589, in __init__
>     raise TypeError("bufsize must be an integer")
> TypeError: bufsize must be an integer
>
>
> Can you tell me why and whats the sol?
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INADA Naoki  <songofacandy at gmail.com>



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