OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory while using python subprocess in Django

Question

I am trying to run a program to make some system calls inside Python code using subprocess.call() which throws the following error:

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Answer 1

Use shell=True if you're passing a string to subprocess.call.

From docs:

If passing a single string, either shell must be True or else the string must simply name the program to be executed without specifying any arguments.

subprocess.call(crop, shell=True)

or:

import shlex
subprocess.call(shlex.split(crop))