pyexiftool resulting in OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error #37
Description
i encountered the following error :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "yeah.py", line 21, in <module>
with exiftool.ExifTool("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/exiftool.py") as et:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/exiftool.py", line 191, in __enter__
self.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/exiftool.py", line 174, in start
stderr=devnull)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 394, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1047, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error
the way i got around this was by modifying start()
def start(self):
"""Start an ``exiftool`` process in batch mode for this instance.
This method will issue a ``UserWarning`` if the subprocess is
already running. The process is started with the ``-G`` and
``-n`` as common arguments, which are automatically included
in every command you run with :py:meth:`execute()`.
"""
if self.running:
warnings.warn("ExifTool already running; doing nothing.")
return
with open(os.devnull, "w") as devnull:
self._process = subprocess.Popen(
[self.executable, "-stay_open", "True", "-@", "-",
"-common_args", "-G", "-n"],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=devnull,shell=True)
self.running = True
see https://askubuntu.com/questions/801493/python-subprocess-call-not-working-as-expected