[Twisted-Python] Processes in Twisted, only possible to run external prog?

Gabriel Rossetti gabriel.rossetti at arimaz.com
Fri Aug 29 07:38:00 EDT 2008


Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> On Friday 29 August 2008, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>   
>> Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
>>     
>>> Maybe you could bypass this problem by generating a short shell script
>>> that does "cd" before it starts Wine? Since the shell will be a
>>> separate process, it has its own working dir.
>>>       
>> I'd rather not, because that would mean implementing everything (the
>> whole conversion process) in the script.
>>     
>
> Do the other processing steps also require the working directory to be 
> changed? Most unix programs work fine from any dir as long as you provide 
> absolute paths for the input and output files.
>
> Bye,
> 		Maarten
>   
Maarten,

It worked, I was able to do the pre & post processing using abs paths 
(thus from outside of the working dir)
and the encoding was done from a script that changed the working directory.

Thank you,
Gabriel




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