Subprocess.call or Subprocess.Popen cannot use executables that are in PATH (Linux/Windows)

Question

I\'m writing a programme that needs to run on both Linux and Windows and use executables (with parameters) that exist in the path. (Assumed)

Currently I\'m having tr

Answer 1

I struggled with this myself until I found this python bug report.

"If you add a directory into PATH on Windows so that the directory is in quotes, subprocess does not find executables in it." Since the quotes aren't required by windows removing them fixes my problem (in 2.7).