subprocess.call error

[sravan953]

Hey guys....

I use Python 2.6.2. I recently created a program which accepts commands from my website, here's the code I used:

import urllib
import subprocess
import time

open_site=urllib.urlopen("http://www.sravan953.webs.com/command_python.htm")
read_site=open_site.read()

def run_program():
    current=time.asctime()
    print 'Runnning program'+' ['+current+']'
    subprocess.call(read_site)

def check_argument():
    current=time.asctime()
    if read_site=='':
        print 'No command given'+' ['+current+']'
        timer()
    else:
        print 'Command found...'+' ['+current+']'
        run_program()

def timer():
    current=time.asctime()
    print 'Checking for commands...'+' ['+current+']'
    time.sleep(2)
    check_argument()

timer()

But when I run it I get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Documents and Settings\Sravan\My Documents\Sravan\PYTHON\Accepshun.py", line 28, in <module>
timer()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\Sravan\My Documents\Sravan\PYTHON\Accepshun.py", line 26, in timer
check_argument()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\Sravan\My Documents\Sravan\PYTHON\Accepshun.py", line 20, in check_argument
run_program()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\Sravan\My Documents\Sravan\PYTHON\Accepshun.py", line 11, in run_program
subprocess.call("C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 3\firefox.exe")
File "C:\Python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 444, in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File "C:\Python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "C:\Python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 804, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

I only recently uninstalled Python 2.6.2 and re-installed it again, and then installed py2exe....it used to work fine before I uninstalled it, is there anything else I have to install?

Thanks for the help guys...

[vegaseat]

subprocess.call(["program-name", "arg1", "arg2"]) takes an executable program with arguments.

You are giving it an html script code. That won't work!

[sravan953]

subprocess.call(["program-name", "arg1", "arg2"]) takes an executable program with arguments.

You are giving it an html script code. That won't work!

Yeah but, I have made sure that in the webpage, there is only text and no HTML tags...so basically it should work right?

[vegaseat]

Run this little test code, it's the beginning of your program ...

import urllib

url = "http://www.sravan953.webs.com/command_python.htm"
open_site = urllib.urlopen(url)
read_site = open_site.read()

print(read_site)

The only thing you can execute this result with is a web browser.
You can run the url directly using the Python module webbrowser ...

import webbrowser

url = "http://www.sravan953.webs.com/command_python.htm"
webbrowser.open(url)