Re: windows lilypond-book.py

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham, you wrote Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:38 AM

> ok, could you paste these 3 lines to the top of the main()
> function, then run the result?  you'll need to CTRL-C when it gets
> to step 2, but if this looks ok (please check log.txt) then we're
> still good.
>
>    cmd = "dir > log.txt"
>    ret = os.system(cmd)
>    print "0. return code: ", ret

No go.  This falls foul of the ant-hacking measures in Windows.
Program Files is a protected directory:

$ python test-subprocess.py
**** Begin testing
Access is denied.
0. return code:  1
Volume in drive C is ACER
Volume Serial Number is C012-6885
[directory contents]
13/01/2012  08:55            12,103 _weakref.dll
            183 File(s)     44,408,424 bytes
              2 Dir(s)  56,064,499,712 bytes free
1. return code:  0

Trevor