[Rivet-svn] r1886 - trunk/bin

[blackhole at projects.hepforge.org]

Author: hoeth
Date: Wed Oct  7 18:58:00 2009
New Revision: 1886

Log:
make compare-histos work with python-2.3 again by using os.popen instead of subprocess.Popen

Modified:
   trunk/bin/compare-histos

Modified: trunk/bin/compare-histos
==============================================================================
--- trunk/bin/compare-histos	Wed Oct  7 16:59:07 2009	(r1885)
+++ trunk/bin/compare-histos	Wed Oct  7 18:58:00 2009	(r1886)
@@ -236,7 +236,6 @@
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     import os, sys, re, logging
-    from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 
     usage = """%prog - generate comparison plots
 
@@ -255,9 +254,8 @@
     except ImportError:
         pass
 
-    try:
-        rivet_data_dir=Popen(["rivet-config", "--datadir"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0].split()[0]
-    except:
+    rivet_data_dir=os.popen('rivet-config --datadir',"r").readline().strip()
+    if not rivet_data_dir:
         rivet_data_dir=""
 
     ## Parse command line options