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Posted: **Sun May 28, 2017 6:20 pm**

Hi

I am trying to execute the command line tool from within the Python script editor in Nuke.

I have something like this:

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import subprocess
tool = "/Users/user-name/ARRIMetaExtract_CMD_3.4.5.50_osx"
args1 = '-i /Volumes/Work_RAID0/Work_02/Alexa_Plates/L001C028_140110_R6MS/2880x2160/'
args2 = '*.ari'
subprocess.Popen([tool, args1, args2])

This always gets stuck at Scanning....
Check attached

Although it works great when launched from Terminal.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2017 4:53 pm**

Dear Mohamed,

I passed your request to our developer, he wrote: "argument 2 ('*.ari') is not supported like this, .ari/.dpx follow the sequence parser; hence it is sufficient to supply the path in which AME should look

Like this:

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import subprocess
tool = "/Users/user-name/ARRIMetaExtract_CMD_3.4.5.50_osx"
args1 = '-i /Volumes/Work_RAID0/Work_02/Alexa_Plates/L001C028_140110_R6MS/2880x2160'
subprocess.Popen([tool, args1, args2])

Kind regards,
Jan

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2017 8:53 pm**

Hi Jan

Thank you but I have tried your suggestion and ignored the file extension argument and still it gets stuck at scanning.

I have also tried this code from an a regular python IDE and same problem.

Also this code should work but produces the same problem, stuck at Scanning...

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import os
os.system("/Users/user-name/ARRIMetaExtract_CMD_3.4.5.50_osx -i /Volumes/Work_RAID0/Work_02/Alexa_Plates/L001C028_140110_R6MS/2880x2160")

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2017 9:43 pm**

Update:

The os.system command works great on windows.

Probably something I'm missing in OS X.

Will update you if I fix it in case someone else wants to know.

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