WindowsError [error 5] Access is denied

Question

I'm using the killableprocess package (built on top of subprocess) for running processes Whenever I run the "killableprocess.Popen(command)" piece of code in my script I get the following error:

File "killableprocess.py", line 157, in _execute_child   winprocess.AssignProcessToJobObject(self._job, hp) File "winprocess.py", line 37, in ErrCheckBool   raise WinError() WindowsError [error 5] Access is denied Exception TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound method AutoHANDLE.__del__ of <AutoHANDLE object at 0x025D42B0>> ignored 

But when I run it from the python interactive console (python 2.6) it works fine. That probably means there are permission issues when I run this from the script, but I don't know how to solve them. I tried running the script from a cmd that I ran as administrator, but it didn't help. Tried looking for similar posts but didn't find any good solution. Hope to find some help here I'm running on Windows, specifically Windows 7 Ultimate x64, if it's any help.

thanks

Answer 1

I solved a similar problem I had by switching to the process directory (I was trying to use inkscape) and it solved my problem

import subprocess inkscape_dir=r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape" assert os.path.isdir(inkscape_dir) os.chdir(inkscape_dir) subprocess.Popen(['inkscape.exe',"-f",fname,"-e",fname_png]) 

Maybe switching to the process directory will work for you too.