Re: Good and bad news about Lilypond 2.9.20 on Windows

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson schreef:

> The bad news is that lilypond-book fails. The first problem is the old 
> usual
> Python problem:
> C:\Documents and Settings\mabe\My Documents\lily>lilypond-book --pdf -o 
> out a.lytex
> lilypond-book.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.9.20
> Reading a.lytex...
> Running latex...Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1780, in ?
>    main ()
>  File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1734, 
> in main
>    chunks = do_file (file)
>  File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1612, 
> in do_file
>    set_default_options (source)
>  File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 746, in 
> set_default_options
>    textwidth = get_latex_textwidth (source)
>  File "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 1421, 
> in get_latex_textwidth
>    ly.system ('latex %s' % tmpfile, be_verbose=global_options.verbose)
>  File "out/lilylib.py", line 99, in system
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 542, in __init__
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 899, in _execute_child
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pipe'

can you tell me what

import sys
print sys.platform

says?

> The second problem is new for this release. When I call the program 
> using the
> native Python package, it doesn't find the lilypond executable, for some 
> strange reason:

> I've verified that the lilypond bin directory is at the top of the path 
> and it works to
> call lilypond from the command line, so the PATH must get lost somewhere 
> along
> the way.

does it work if you substitute ly.system() calls with os.system() ?

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