title: Problems using subprocess.call() in Python 2.7.2 on Windows
body: <p>I'm trying the following and its failing with an error. I've tried to run it from Python shell/from a script/ on the windows console by invoking python on console. Nothing seems to work. Always the same error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>from subprocess import call
  &gt;&gt;&gt;pat = "d:\info2.txt"
  
  &gt;&gt;&gt; call(["type",pat])
  
  &gt;&gt;&gt;Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;pyshell#56&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      call(["type",pat])
    File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 493, in call
      return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
    File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
      errread, errwrite)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 893, in _execute_child
      startupinfo)
  WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>does anyone know what is wrong here.!!???</p>
  
  <p>even the simple <code>call(["date"]]</code> without any arguements also fails with the same error. </p>
  
  <p>I'm using :
  Python 2.72 32bit version on a windows 7 machine.</p>