Python from within Python

Question

I'm trying to launch a simple server from a Python script:

 server = Popen(['python' ,'-m', 'SimpleHTTPServer', '9090'], stderr=STDOUT, stdout=PIPE)
 output = server.communicate()[0] # <- DEBUG

Reading the output, I see:

'/usr/bin/python: Import by filename is not supported.'

What's the problem? How to solve it?

• Noufal Ibrahim: Works fine for me. Make it log to the screen directly. Let's see what it says. Also, don't import Popen and the rest of subprocess into your current namespace.
• pistacchio: can't log to the screen as it is withing a library and it's not a console application.
• RanRag: I tested your code on windows and it works fine.
• Pamela McA'Nulty: +1 to Noufal - my guess is that it's environmental - the "python" being invoked by Popen ('/usr/bin/python' based on the output) might be a different version, but one of the PYTHON...PATH environment variables might be pointing somewhere else...
• schlamar: Try sys.executable instead of 'python'.

Answer 1

I suggest change to code to this:

import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer
PORT = 9090
Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)
print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()

• tripleee: This has the decided disadvantage that the script cannot perform other tasks while the server runs in the background.