Subprocess in Python: File Name too long

Question

I try to call a shellscript via the subprocess module in Python 2.6.

import subprocess

shellFile = open(\"linksNetCdf.txt\", \"r\")

for row in shellFile:
    s         


        

Answer 1

You need to tell subprocess to execute the line as full command including arguments, not just one program.

This is done by passing shell=True to call

 import subprocess
 cmd = "ls " + "/tmp/ " * 30
 subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)