Python Popen shell = False calls OSError: [Errno 2] There is no such file or directory

Question

I am trying to run the Popen command below on OSX using shell = False:

command = "/usr/local/itms/share/iTMSTransporter.woa/iTMSTransporter -m verify -f /Volumes/Stuff/Temp/TMP_S_0_V_TV2.itmsp -u username -p password -o /Volumes/Stuff/Temp/TMP_S_0_V_TV2.itmsp/LOGFILE.txt -s provider -v eXtreme" self.process1 = Popen(command, shell=False, stdin=PIPE) 

But I get this error:

  raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory 

What is going wrong? I also need this to work on Windows, I know the directory paths, slashes, etc.

Answer 1

The first argument to Popen should be a list of arguments. Otherwise, you tell him to find the executable named strange. You can use shlex.split() to properly split

like Popen(shlex.split(command), shell=False, stdin=PIPE)

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