[Tutor] subprocess.Popen()

Dave Hill dave at the-hills.org.uk
Mon Dec 3 08:31:18 EST 2018


I had not spotted that! It appears that, although I have 3.7 on my 
laptop, 3.7 is not a part of the latest standard Raspbian release. I 
will install this later today and try again.

Dave

On 03/12/2018 10:12, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 02/12/2018 10:29, Dave Hill wrote:
>
>> Having 'graduated' to Python 3.7, I thought I would explore
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "/home/pi/Code/TestVideo#4.py", line 31, in <module>
>>       player.playVideo(FILE, 'HDMI')
>>     File "/home/pi/Code/VideoPlayer.py", line 51, in playVideo
>>       out = omxp.communicate()
>>     File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 801, in communicate
>>       stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)
> The first thing I notice is that you say you are using
> Python 3.7 yet the libs appear to be 3.5.
>
> It could be some kind of path problem?
>
> Or maybe how you start Python. Do you explicitly call python37?
>
> I don't have the time to go through the code in detail just now.
> If nobody else picks it up I'll take a closer look later.
>


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