[takiaine]

I am trying to make a script that uses external program to check the status of the system(mythshutdow --status to check the status of mythbackend). However I am not able to get the return value from the program when I run it as a addon, but if I run the same pease of code outside of xbmc then it works.

For example if I run this pease of code on command prompt.

Code:

import subprocess
retVal = subprocess.call("exit 2", shell=True)
print retVal

I get the right output

Code:

python2 default.py
2

But when I run the same pease of code inside xbmc python addon, the retValue is 0. So how can I get the return value of the program?

[tknoll]

Did you find any solution to this problem? I'm facing the exact same issue right now, i. e.
getting the correct returncode when executing a command via subprocess.Popen outside
of xbmc but getting 0 (zero) when executing it inside of xbmc.

Evaluating the return code would be very beneficial as this should be its purpose...

[bossanova808]

I do this when I want to chek out what is going on:

Code:

#for debugging, grab the process output....
            #output, result = subprocess.Popen(exe, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.PIPE, shell=False).communicate()
            #log("$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ " + str(output))
            #log("$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ " + str(result))

           #actual process kick off code
            slaveProcess = subprocess.Popen(exe, shell=False)
           #or for windows to prevent shell
           slaveProcess = subprocess.Popen(exe, creationflags=0x08000000,  shell=False)

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(the commented stuff lets you grab the output of the program)