[IronPython] opening an exe with iron python

[Jeff Hardy]

Sounds like os.popen should do what you want.

On 1/19/11, Bob White <bob at luxvfx.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm pretty new to python, let alone Iron Python and of course I've bitten
> off more than I can chew.  I'm trying to get our rendering client Deadline
> to run a post render job on the frame it's just finished rendering.  I have
> already written a separate python script using python 2.6 that does the post
> render job manually, but in order to automate it I need to convert my
> existing script into Iron Python friendly code because that's what Deadline
> utilizes.
>
> The existing script is works like this (I'm sure this is error loaded and
> obvious n00b script, so any input would be hugely appreciated):
>
> converter = subprocess.Popen([r"C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2011
> for x64/bin/vrimg2exr.exe", inFile, outFile],stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> print converter.communicate()[0]
>
> The version of Iron Python that Deadline uses doesn't have the subprocess
> module built into it, and I don't really want to install Python 2.6 on the
> whole farm but if I need to, I need to.  Any ideas on a similar method for
> opening and supplying an exe with two arguments that doesn't use the
> subprocess module??
>
> I've been trying to get the ScriptUtils.ExecuteCommandAndGetOutput() to
> work, but it doesn't work like I'm expecting it to.  I always wind up with
> "expected StringCollection, got String" or "got tuple"...
>
> Really, any help would be amazing.  Thanks
> -B
>

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