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Run mplayer using subprocess in Python erro

I want to run mplayer using python and here is my code 

from subprocess import call 
call (mplayer /root/Desktop/file.mp4)

but it is not working I got this error

File "two.py", line 8, in <module>
    call ("mplayer /root/Desktop/file.mp4")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 493, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1259, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception

What I am doing wrong ?

Solution

  • You need to pass a list of args with shell=False(which is the default):

    call(["mplayer", "/root/Desktop/file.mp4"])

    Or with a single string you would need shell=True:

    call("mplayer /root/Desktop/file.mp4", shell=True)

    But there is no need for the latter, the first will work fine.