HartyBart posted at 10:06PM Wed, 04 August 2021 - #4424562

Well, this is as far as I've got so far. I can see why people don't want to work with ImageMagick - it seems so difficult to get the arguments accepted and encapsulated correctly in the Python. This still isn't working, but I think it's the closest I've come yet. I just don't know how to get past this...

import subprocess
path = [r'C:|Program Files|ImageMagick|mogrify.exe']
args = ['mogrify -layers "optimize" -fuzz 7% test.gif']
cmd = path + args
run_cmd = subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)

Not tested in Windows, but maybe you want to give this a try:

import subprocess

command = ["ls", "-l"]
try:
    output = subprocess.check_output(command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).decode()
    success = True 
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
    output = e.output.decode()
    success = False

print(output)

The commandstring above has two parts. The command itself ("ls") and an argument ("-l"). Change it to a command you want to try.

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