subprocess.Popen(): OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error in python?

Question

Yesterday, I wrote and ran a python script which executes a shell using subprocess.Popen(command.split()) where command is string whic

Answer 1

This can also happen if the binary is not meant to run on your system.

I'm on OSX, but the binary I was running is not meant for OSX, as I saw from using file path/to/binary:

webui/bin/wkhtmltopdf: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=b6566a9e44c43a0eebf18d8c1dc6cb616801a77e, stripped