convert a bash script to python3

Question

I have a bash script, which is running perfectly:

gvim  --servername "servername" $1
if [ -f ${1%.tex}.pdf ];
then
  evince ${1%.tex}.pdf &
fi
evince_vim_dbus.py  GVIM servername ${1%.tex}.pdf  $1 &

I am trying to convert it to python as:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from subprocess import call
import sys, os

inp_tex = sys.argv[1]
oup_pdf = os.path.splitext(sys.argv[1])[0]+".pdf"
print(oup_pdf)

call(["gvim", "--servername", "servername",  sys.argv[1]])

if os.path.exists(oup_pdf):
  call(["evince", oup_pdf])

call(["evince_vim_dbus.py", "GVIM", "servername", oup_pdf, inp_tex])

in the python, both gvim and evince window is open, but evince_vim_dbus.py line is not working. Not that it is giving any error, but it is not showing intended result, as it should, and is doing with the bash script.

trying with check_call (I have to kill it after a while, here's the traceback):

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/rudra/vims.py", line 28, in <module>
    check_call(["python","/home/rudra/bin/evince_vim_dbus.py", "GVIM", "servername", oup_pdf, inp_tex])
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 576, in check_call
    retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 559, in call
    return p.wait(timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1658, in wait
    (pid, sts) = self._try_wait(0)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1608, in _try_wait
    (pid, sts) = os.waitpid(self.pid, wait_flags)
KeyboardInterrupt

call(["gvim", "--servername", "'servername'", sys.argv[1]]): there are single quotes within double quotes, is that a typo? — Jean-François Fabre
– Jean-François Fabre ♦, Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 22:25
can you check return code of the commands? and why calling a python script inside another when importing is so easy? — Jean-François Fabre
– Jean-François Fabre ♦, Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 22:30
BTW, your original bash actually has a bunch of bugs -- try using it to process a file with spaces in its name to see. Consider running it through shellcheck.net and fixing the problems identified. — Charles Duffy
– Charles Duffy, Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 22:33

Dolda2000 · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-30 22:29:50Z

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I'm going to have a guess that your real problem isn't the evince_vim_dbus.py line itself, but rather the gvim line, because you pass it the server name 'servername' instead of simply servername, and so doesn't match the name on the line that runs evince_vim_dbus.py.

I'm not familiar with gvim or its server functionality, but I'm guessing the evince_vim_dbus.py program connects to gvim using the given name, in which case it's going to fail since the server of the right name isn't running.

If that's not it, then maybe the problem is that subprocess.call() runs the given program and waits for it to exit, whereas in your original bash script, you run evince with an ampersand, causing bash not to wait for it, so maybe the problem is that evince_vim_dbus.py never runs at all until you exit Evince.

edited Dec 30, 2016 at 22:29

answered Dec 30, 2016 at 22:24

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BaRud Over a year ago

I have gvim --servername "servername" $1 in bash, with "severname" under quote.

Dolda2000 Over a year ago

@BaRud, sure but those quotes are consumed by bash and aren't passed into gvim. In fact, those quotes were no-ops and completely extraneous.

BaRud Over a year ago

Tried this: call(["gvim", "--servername", "servername", sys.argv[1]]), with no result.

Charles Duffy Over a year ago

@BaRud, ...to be clear, those quotes are syntactic in bash -- they're instructions to the shell, not passed to gvim in the argv array used in the execv-family syscall that does the actual heavy lifting of starting an external command. Because you don't have any shell when using subprocess.call() in this manner (and don't add shell=True, that's creating more problems!), there's nothing for those quotes to be parsed/consumed by.

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