Cannot use gcloud compute ssh command in python subprocess

Question

I have a compute engine already set up, I can use ssh command in command prompt, like

gcloud compute ssh test-instance@cloud-engine-noapi --zone us-central1-f --command "rm -f test.txt"

and successfully delete the test.txt in server.

However, when I call these in python.

subprocess.call(['gcloud', 'compute', '--project', 'test-project','ssh', temp_instance, '--zone', zone, '--command', '"cd /home"'], shell=True)
subprocess.call(['gcloud', 'compute', '--project', 'test-project','ssh', temp_instance, '--zone', zone, '--command', '"ls -l"'], shell=True)
subprocess.call(['gcloud', 'compute', '--project', 'test-project','ssh', temp_instance, '--zone', zone, '--command', '"rm -f /home/test.txt"'], shell=True)

The return is always like

bash: /command : No such file or directory

and for command like ls

bash: /command : command not found

Is there any process I have to do first?

Answer 1

Though, probably no one has this problem... but I finally come up with a method to solve it.

As the problem only occurs when using subprocess, I bypass it by writing a (bat/sh) file to temporarily save the commands.

Like,

with open(os.path.join(__location__, 'gcloud_command.bat'), 'w') as bat:
            command_arr = []
            for instance in all_instances_name:
                temp_instance = user_name + "@" + instance
                temp_file_path = '/home/' + user_name + '/'
                command_arr.append('call gcloud compute ssh ' + temp_instance + ' --zone ' + zone + ' --command "cd ' + temp_file_path + '; rm -rf ' + temp_file_path + projectname.split('.')[0] + '; rm -f ' + temp_file_path + projectname.split('.')[0] + '*"\n')
                command_arr.append('call gcloud compute scp "' + fullpath_projectname + '" ' + instance + ':' + temp_file_path + '\n')
                if is_zip:
                    command_arr.append('call gcloud compute ssh ' + temp_instance + ' --zone ' + zone + ' ' + ' --command "cd ' + temp_file_path + '; unzip ' + temp_file_path + projectname + '"' + '\n')
            bat.writelines(command_arr)

And execute with

subprocess.Popen(os.path.join(__location__, 'gcloud_command.bat'))