Problems with scp script in Python

[Michael Torrie]

On 2017-02-13 05:17 AM, jhlobin at gmail.com wrote:
> I have an SCP script that auto completes just fine from the terminal window in Pi.  When I use either subprocess or os to try and have it run under Python it does not do the file transfer from Pi to my Ubuntu machine.  What am I doing wrong?  Here is the script:
>
> from subprocess import call
> cmd='scp -i id_rsa sample.txt jack at 192.168.1.103 /home/jack/pi_data'
> call (cmd.split ())
>
> Thank you

Did you try specifying the full path for scp?