[64-bit] subprocess.Popen raises error - Kodi for PC IOS Football Addons IPTV M3u Sports

Hi!

I was testing my addon on the latest Kodi 18 alpha. It works with Kodi 32-bit, but I have a problem with 64-bit version when I want to run an external program using subprocess.Popen (tested on 64-bit Windows 8). In default.py file in the 35th line subprocess.Popen(‘ping google.com’, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) raises an error.

I have narrowed the code to the following small default.py:

Code:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import subprocess

import xbmc

if __name__ == '__main__': xbmc.log("----- Begin ----- ", level=xbmc.LOGERROR) result = subprocess.Popen('ping -n 3 google.com', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read() xbmc.log(str(result), level=xbmc.LOGERROR) xbmc.log("------ End ------ ", level=xbmc.LOGERROR)

that raises this error when Kodi is run by a normal user:

Code:
EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

 - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.OSError'>

Error Contents: (13, 'Permission denied')

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\iwis\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.service.ping-addon\default.py", line 9, in <module>

    result = subprocess.Popen('ping -n 3 google.com', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()

  File "C:\Program Files\Kodi\system\python\Lib\subprocess.py", line 420, in __init__

    self.stdout = os.fdopen(c2pread, 'rb', bufsize)

OSError: (13, 'Permission denied')

-->End of Python script error report<--

or this error when Kodi is run by an administrator:

Code:
EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

 - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.OSError'>

Error Contents: (2, 'No such file or directory')

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\admin1\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.service.ping-addon\default.py", line 9, in <module>

    result = subprocess.Popen('ping -n 3 google.com', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()

  File "C:\Program Files\Kodi\system\python\Lib\subprocess.py", line 420, in __init__

    self.stdout = os.fdopen(c2pread, 'rb', bufsize)

OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory')

-->End of Python script error report<--

what is wrong with subprocess.Popen in 64-bit Kodi?

addon.xml:

Code:
﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<addon id="script.service.ping-addon" name="Ping addon" version="1.0.0" provider-name="iwis">

    <requires>

        <import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.25.0" />

    </requires>

    <extension point="xbmc.python.script" library="default.py" />

    <extension point="xbmc.addon.metadata">

        <summary lang="en_GB">Pings Google</summary>

        <description lang="en_GB">...</description>

        <platform>windx</platform>

        <license></license>

        <source></source>

        <forum></forum>

        <email></email>

        <assets>

        </assets>

    </extension>

</addon>