Grant Edwards schrieb:
I'm trying to use the py-gnuplot module on windows, and have
been unable to get it to work reliably under Win2K and WinXP.
By default, it uses popen(gnuplotcmd,'w'), but in some
situations that consistently gets an "invalid operand" IOError
when write() is called on the pipe.
So I switched to subprocess. It works fine when executed
"normally" (e.g. "python progname.py"), but when bundled by
py2exe, it always does this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "surfedit.py", line 28, in ?
File "Gnuplot\_Gnuplot.pyc", line 178, in __init__
File "Gnuplot\gp_win32.pyc", line 117, in __init__
File "subprocess.pyc", line 533, in __init__
File "subprocess.pyc", line 607, in _get_handles
File "subprocess.pyc", line 634, in _make_inheritable
WindowsError: [Errno 6] The handle is invalid
How does one troubleshoot errors that happen three layers deep
in the subprocess module?
I think this is a subprocess bug. It is often attributed to py2exe because
usually developers do never run the script in pythonW.exe instead of python.exe,
and later build a *windows* program with py2exe (the *windows* program has no
console, and that triggers the bug).
Consider ths little script:
"""
import os, sys, subprocess
sys.stderr = open("errors.txt", "w")
if os.path.exists("output.txt"):
os.remove("output.txt")
proc = subprocess.Popen("dir", shell=True,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
## stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
## stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
)
##proc.stderr.close()
##proc.stdin.close()
data = proc.stdout.read()
open("output.txt", "w").write(data)
"""
It calls 'dir' in the current directory, and writes the output
to the file 'output.txt'. Any errors are written to 'errors.txt'.
When you run this script with python.exe, everything works.
If the script is run with pythonW.exe, nothing works and 'errors.txt'
contains this:
c:\svn\theller>type errors.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test_subproc.py", line 9, in <module>
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
File "c:\python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 586, in __init__
errread, errwrite) = self._get_handles(stdin, stdout, stderr)
File "c:\python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 699, in _get_handles
p2cread = self._make_inheritable(p2cread)
File "c:\python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 744, in _make_inheritable
DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS)
WindowsError: [Error 6] Das Handle ist ungültig
c:\svn\theller>
The error message, translated to english, is 'the handle is invalid'.
The script can be made to work correctly even with pythonW.exe (and also
as py2exe'd windows program, I just checked it out) when the 4 commented out
lines are uncommented. subprocess cannot inherit the standard handles when
the process has no console, you have to create pipes for all 3 channels, and
close those that are not needed.
I thought that this bug was fixed in Python2.5.1 (the release candidate),
but it seems it wasn't. The bug is at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...70&atid=105470
If all this is correct, I hope that someone adds a section to the py2exe wiki;
and reopens the above bug report.
Thomas
