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Noel Yap
Noel Yap

Reputation: 19768

Why does P4Python not recognize P4CONFIG setting?

I have the following code:

# script0.py
def main():
    p4 = p4python.P4.P4()
    p4.connect()
    print os.environ['P4CONFIG']
    print p4.p4config_file
    p4.disconnect()

which is being called via:

# script0_test.py
subprocess.check_call(['script0.py'])

and is outputting:

.p4config
noconfig

When script0.py is called from the command line or if subprocess.check_call(shell=True) is used, it outputs correct info:

.p4config
/home/nyap/proj/.p4config

Why does the p4 object not recognize the P4CONFIG setting when shell=False?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1973

Answers (2)

Jan
Jan

Reputation: 61

I ran into this same issue. It appears to be a bug in P4Python specific to Linux. The P4 class is being intialized with the current working directory set to '/' instead of the actual working directory. This then stops P4 from finding the .p4config file.

The following workaround fixed it for me:

  p4 = P4.P4(cwd=os.getcwd())

Upvotes: 2

Gordon Broom
Gordon Broom

Reputation: 300

From a command-line, what does p4 set show for P4CONFIG? If it's not there, then you'll need to do p4 set P4CONFIG=".p4config" (on Windows or OS X). If your p4 set output already lists P4CONFIG then I don't know... If you're on Linux, the p4 set manpage says it will show the corresponding environment variables but you can't set them that way. In that case, I dunno.

Upvotes: 0

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