List of arguments silently fails in subprocess.Popen whereas same list runs successfully in subprocess.run

[aaronepinto]

Bug report

Bug description:

The following fails silently:

server_command = [
    "/opt/conda/envs/vila_env/bin/python",
    "-W",
    "ignore",
    "/tmp/app/VILA/custom_server.py",
    "--model-path",
    model_path,
    "--conv-mode",
    conv_mode,
    "--port",
    str(port),
]

self.vila_server_process = subprocess.Popen(
    server_command,
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
    shell=True,
    text=True,
)

Whereas the following two run as expected:

1. Using Subprocess.run:

server_command = [
    "/opt/conda/envs/vila_env/bin/python",
    "-W",
    "ignore",
    "/tmp/app/VILA/custom_server.py",
    "--model-path",
    model_path,
    "--conv-mode",
    conv_mode,
    "--port",
    str(port),
]

self.vila_server_process = subprocess.run(
    server_command,
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
    shell=True,
    text=True,
)

2. Using subprocess.Popen

server_command = f"/opt/conda/envs/vila_env/bin/python -W ignore /tmp/app/VILA/custom_server.py --model-path {model_path} --conv-mode {conv_mode} --port {port}"

self.vila_server_process = subprocess.Popen(
    server_command,
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
    shell=True,
    text=True,
)

The docstring for Popen specifies the following, hence pointing to this being unexpected:

     Arguments:
      args: A string, or a sequence of program arguments.

CPython versions tested on:

3.10

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

[graingert]

This is the CPython issue tracker and Python 3.10 is in security fixes only level of support.

Please try your code on a bugfix-supported version of python eg 3.13 or 3.12

Additionally, please open a help thread on https://discuss.python.org/c/help/7 please make your example snippets runnable by including definitions for self, model_path etc and all imports, please also include the full output and what you mean by fails silently.

subprocess.run directly passes it's positional arguments to subprocess.Popen so I don't think that's related. Perhaps you're missing a call to the communicate method?