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wukong

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Mar 31, 2010, 5:26:24 PM3/31/10
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subprocess works fine on my win pro 32-bit, but not on vista 64-bit.
am i doing some wrong, or it just won't work for win64? If that's
true, will it be extended to win64 in teh future?
thanks in advance
wk

Chris Rebert

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Mar 31, 2010, 5:33:13 PM3/31/10
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:26 PM, wukong <novac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> subprocess works fine on my win pro 32-bit, but not on vista 64-bit.
> am i doing some wrong, or it just won't work for win64?  If that's
> true, will it be extended to win64 in teh future?

Please characterize exactly how it is not working for you.
Include any error message and/or exception traceback.

Cheers,
Chris
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wukong

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Mar 31, 2010, 5:43:26 PM3/31/10
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On Mar 31, 2:33 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:26 PM, wukong <novacomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > subprocess works fine on my win pro 32-bit, but not on vista 64-bit.
> > am i doing some wrong, or it just won't work for win64?  If that's
> > true, will it be extended to win64 in teh future?
>
> Please characterize exactly how it is not working for you.
> Include any error message and/or exception traceback.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> --http://blog.rebertia.com

thanks for checking in, here's the error msg.
"""
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/GUI/mainFunc.py", line 230, in OnSolve
subprocess.call([filename])
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 470,
in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 621,
in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 830,
in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 14001] The application has failed to start
because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the
application event log for more detail
"""

also subprocess.py clearly says
"""
import sys
mswindows = (sys.platform == "win32")
"""

thanks
wk

Terry Reedy

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Mar 31, 2010, 5:54:56 PM3/31/10
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On 3/31/2010 5:26 PM, wukong wrote:
> subprocess works fine on my win pro 32-bit, but not on vista 64-bit.

You are more likely to get a helpful answer if you give a minimal
example and explain exactly what 'not [works fine]' means. What did
happen? Include full error traceback if there was one.

Martin v. Loewis

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Mar 31, 2010, 6:47:18 PM3/31/10
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> WindowsError: [Error 14001] The application has failed to start
> because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the
> application event log for more detail

This is a configuration error on your system. The application you are
trying to start is incorrectly installed - it's not only that Python
can't start it, but nobody can.

Regards,
Martin

wukong

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Apr 1, 2010, 12:35:04 PM4/1/10
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but python runs happy otherwise, only this call to subprocess resulted
in an err. does anyone know for sure subprocess runs on win64? or
any others like, popen does?
thanks
wk

wukong

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Apr 1, 2010, 12:36:20 PM4/1/10
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On Mar 31, 3:47 pm, "Martin v. Loewis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:

nad also as i mentioned previously, it runs great on win32.

Steve Holden

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Apr 1, 2010, 12:58:49 PM4/1/10
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Subprocess runs another program. It's the program you are running that's
giving the error, Python is merely reporting it.

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Steve
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Michel Claveau - MVP

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Apr 1, 2010, 1:11:32 PM4/1/10
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Hi!

> side-by-side configuration is incorrect

Others have given you an explanation.

A possibility: you use a DLL directly, without having installed.
That is OK with some DLL, and no OK with others DLL.

@-salutations
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Piet van Oostrum

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Apr 1, 2010, 4:55:46 PM4/1/10
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>>>>> wukong <novac...@gmail.com> (w) wrote:

>w> also subprocess.py clearly says
>w> """
>w> import sys
>w> mswindows = (sys.platform == "win32")
>w> """

It may sound strange, but even in 64-bit Python on Win64,
sys.plattform=="win32".

You can check that subprocess is working, e.g. with
subprocess.call('dir', shell=True)
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