[Zope] 'popen' calls not happening?

[seb bacon]

Is that all your 'except' clause does?  Because if so, you're not
going to get any tracebacks at all, because the expect is catching
them all and doing nothing with them.  Try removing the try..except. 

seb

* Jean Jordaan <jean@upfrontsystems.co.za> [010907 11:44]:
> Hi all
> 
> We've been successfully using this code from an external
> method to run a third-party program, but it's mysteriously
> stopped working::
> 
>     try:
>         child_stdout, \
>         child_stdin, \
>         child_stderr =
> popen3('/usr/local/zope/creme/2-3-0/Extensions/passfeko
> /usr/local/zope/creme/2-3-0/Extensions/passfeko.xml')
>         success.append("'passfeko' executed.\n") #DBG
>     except:
>         exception = sys.exc_info()
>         errors.append( "Could not execute 'passfeko'" \
>                      + '\n --' + str(exception[0]) \
>                      + '\n --' + str(exception[1]) \
>                      + '\n --' + str(exception[2]) \
>                      ) # TODO: display the traceback.
> 
> The third-party program, 'passfeko', writes a textfile,
> taking the 'passfeko.xml' file as input. If I run::
> 
>   ./passfeko passfeko.xml
> 
> from the commandline, the textfile is flawlessly created.
> 
> When run from Zope, no exception is raised, but no textfile
> is created.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jean
> 
> 
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