I am trying to open a .txt file using NotePad++ in Python IDE using subprocess.call function. One issue I needed help is that once I execute below codes: subprocess.call([r”C:Program FilesNotepad++notepad++.exe”, r”C:locationmyfile.txt”]) Python won’t start executing other codes …
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Ping command – Check returned value
How can I evaluate the return of ping command used on subprocess.call(), by having a value of True or False like in the last “if” statement ? Here is the code: The code is working as it should, by iterating on a range of IP addresses (which it get from a XLSX file) and by pinging the single IP add…
Running a GNU parallel command using python subprocess
Here is a simple GNU parallel command that creates a file called “example_i.txt” inside an existing directory called “example_i”. It does this four times, for i from 1 to 4, with one job per core: Not very exciting, I know. The problem appears when I try to run this via python (v3.9) u…
Getting rid of the apostrophe in subprocess.Popen to move files
My script generates multiple files that contain random names based on the info it extracts. I created this test to try and move all new files created while running into a new directory named after the file being ran. When I use os.popen(“mv ” + moveFiles +’ ‘ + filename + “_dir&#…
how to extract 1st page after converting a pdf file to an image with subprocess.Popen
I’m trying to convert pdf files to images, and I’m doing it with subprocess. Now I need a way to extract only the first page without having to convert all of the images. In this case, for example, I only need to convert “out-1.png.” What exactly do I need to get this done? Here’s…
How to preserve original color coding of output on the shell while doing a subprocess.Popen?
I have a simple Python script which live-prints the output of a command. Following is the script: The script works well for what it should do but it loses color coding of the output on my shell. If I type ls -la, I get the output well-colored. But if I run the above Python script, it gives the output uncolore…
How do I get stdout value from the main process immediately when there are forked processes
There’s this external python script that I would like to call. It provides an async mode so that it returns the task id before it completes the whole process. The mechanism works well when I execute in the command line. The task id returns on stdout immediately. But the main process actually forks a sub…
python: find in subprocess’s output, leave it running and continue
I was have to call a shell command I did it. and: and, that command is prints lots of things like verbose is on, and then when its done it’s job it prints (writes) blah blah : Ready I have to call this command, wait for the ‘Ready’ text and leave it running on background, then let the rest o…
Get date using subprocess python?
I used subprocess to get information on a directory in my VM. and i get the output as How can i get just the date from the above output? Thank you Answer As an alternative, since you are already using a subprocess might as well use it all the way: should get you output in the format: Apr 25 2019
How to prevent Docker from messing with subprocess output order? (MCVE included)
Consider this issue.py file: Executing python issue.py manually yields what I expect: However, if I execute this inside a Docker container, something weird happens: How can I fix this, to make Docker respect the correct output order? Notes: This problem also happens with stderr, although the above MCVE does n…