subprocess seems not working in pyinstaller exe file
My program in tkinter
is working well when I am running it using PyCharm
,
when I am creating .exe
file using pyinstaller,pyinstaller -i"icon.ico" -w -F script.py
I have no errors.
I am pasting script.exe
in same folder as my script.py
, and after running it I think in step where subprocess
is, it is not answering, because I haveprint
before subprocess line and its working.
Anyone know why?
This is the line with subprocess:
import subprocess
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
s = subprocess.Popen([EXE,files,'command'],shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
EDIT:
same problem with:
s = subprocess.check_output([EXE,files,'command'],shell=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
Solution 1:
You can compile your code in -w mode or --windowed, but then you have to assign stdin and stderr as well.
So change:
s = subprocess.Popen([EXE,files,'command'],shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
to:
s = subprocess.Popen([EXE,files,'command'],shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
Solution 2:
Use this function to get the command's output instead. Works with -F and -w option:
import subprocess
def popen(cmd: str) -> str:
"""For pyinstaller -w"""
startupinfo = subprocess.STARTUPINFO()
startupinfo.dwFlags |= subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
process = subprocess.Popen(cmd,startupinfo=startupinfo, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
return decode_utf8_fixed(process.stdout.read())
Solution 3:
Problem was solved by not using -w
command for generating exe file from .py script.