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I am using the call method from the subprocess module of Python to run a command in the terminal

subprocess.call(['cmd', 'pybot', 'AdminTests', '-v', 'LOGIN URL:_mylink', '-d', '.\\results'])

However my call currently opens a terminal inside of itself, essentially reopening, and then dose nothing at all. Why isn't it executing the rest of my command? I have tried passing my full command as a single string, I have added the shell parameter to my call.. I have tried everything I can think of but nothing is making my Python script run this command in full.

Why isn't my command being ran in full?

Edit: The ouput of the code only opens the command line, then does nothing.
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'\r' means Carriage Return character. You need to escape \ to mean it literally.

subprocess.call(['cmd', 'pybot', 'AdminTests', '-v', 'LOGIN URL:_mylink', '-d', '.\\results'])

or use raw string literal:

subprocess.call(['cmd', 'pybot', 'AdminTests', '-v', 'LOGIN URL:_mylink', '-d', r'.\results'])

BTW, you can omit .\ if it means current directory.

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I'm afraid that escaping the character didn't help, but I have amended my code :(
@Leon, Or ['pybot', ...] (no cmd at all)
I then get the error [ ERROR ] Parsing '-v' failed: Data source does not exist. which is better, but still not good. Why is trying to read an argument as a data source? Edit: Both of your changes result in the same error
@Leon, I don't know about pybot. BTW, does the command itself work w hen you issue the command in command line, not through python ?
No, this is a pybot problem! Thank you very much for solving my issue. :)
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