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Reputation: 392

How to shutdown windows 8 with python 2.7 using a timer

I'm doing a small project to learn more about python 2.7. Im making a shutdown timer, I got the GUI all set up and I just need the command to shutdown windows 8. The cmd command is: shutdown /t xxx.

I have tried the following:

import subprocess
time = 10
subprocess.call(["shutdown.exe", "/t", "time"])


import os
time = 10
os.system("shutdown /t %s " %str(time))

Both don't work. Any help appreciated, I'm using Windows 8 so I think solutions with windows 7 are different.

Thanks for the answers, here is the shutdown timer i made:

https://github.com/hamiltino/shutdownTimer

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6666

Answers (1)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369064

The first argument to the subprocess.call should be the sequence of program arguments(strings) OR a single string.

Try following:

import subprocess
time = 10
subprocess.call(["shutdown.exe", "/t", str(time)]) # replaced `time` with `str(time)`
# OR subprocess.call([r"C:\Windows\system32\shutdown.exe", "/t", str(time)])
#      specified the absolute path of the shutdown.exe
#      The path may vary according to the installation.

or

import os
time = 10
os.system("shutdown /t %s " % time)
# `str` is not required, so removed.

Upvotes: 3

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