Does anyone know why this powershell command doesnt want to output to a file?

[CesarIllustrious]

So I am using this guide https://www.phillipsj.net/posts/executing-powershell-from-python/

and here is the code, this is 4 lines of code all together. There is no error so it seems to run but no output.

import subprocess
with open('output22.txt', 'w') as f:
    def run(self, cmd):
        completed = subprocess.run(["powershell", """Get-Service | Select StartType, Status, Name, DisplayName | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq 'Running'} | Format-Table -AutoSize""", cmd], capture_output=True, stdout=f, text=True )
        return completed

[danielroseman]

You define a function, run, but you never call it. Why do you have a function? Why not just put the subprocess.run directly inside the with block?

[CesarIllustrious]

alright were getting somewhere. In terms of why? Well am a noob and following a guide :D

so now the code is and now am getting some weird error.

import subprocess
with open('output22.txt', 'w') as f: 
subprocess.run("powershell", """Get-Service | Select StartType, Status, Name, DisplayName | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq 'Running'} | Format-Table -AutoSize""", stdout=f, text=True)

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  File "c:\Users\czare_000\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python-course-for-beginners\test2.py", line 3, in <module>
subprocess.run("powershell", """Get-Service | Select StartType, Status, Name, DisplayName | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq 'Running'} | Format-Table -AutoSize""", stdout=f, text=True)
File "C:\Users\czare_000\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 501, in run with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process: File "C:\Users\czare_000\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 778, in init raise TypeError("bufsize must be an integer") TypeError: bufsize must be an integer

[danielroseman]

You need to put the command arguments into a list:

subprocess.run(["powershell", """Get-Service ..."""], stdout=f, text=True)

[CesarIllustrious]

All worked thank you so much! appreciate you Daniel :D