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>