popen problems

[Jeff Hawk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: On Behalf
> Of Dan Armbrust
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:36 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: popen problems
>
> I made the mistake of upgrading a cygwin install that was working.
>
> Now:
>
>  python
> Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 18 2006, 07:40:45)
> [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import os.path
> >>> os.popen('ls').readline()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
>
>
> What on earth happened?
>
> Any idea how I can fix this?  I can't open anything with popen from
> python.
>


What did you actually upgrade?


The current python version in Cygwin is 2.5 (yours is 2.4.3)

--Jeff


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