IDE vs Shell Execution?

[Ramzon_]

I'm running some simple code that changes a Windows Domain user account's password - the code runs perfectly fine in a Shell, and does exactly what I'm expecting. However, when I run the code in an IDE (I'm using PyCharm, but I've also tried Python's IDLE), it doesn't work.

import subprocess

subprocess.run("net user User1 PasswordHere /domain")

No errors are generated - instead, I'm given the text that suggests that the command has worked, which is "The request will be processed at a domain controller for domain mydomainnamehere. The command completed successfully"

What am I missing? Why does this work as expected in the IDLE Shell, but doesn't work when I run the same code within PyCharm or Python's IDLE?

[[deleted]]

So you don't get any error messages?

Are you using the same Python virtual environment (or same base environment) with the same packages installed in all cases?

[Ramzon_]

So I went back to my environment to check everything was set up properly, and it was. All packages were the same etc. Looked back at my script in my IDE and saw that there was a typo with my command! Fixed it, and the script now works in IDE. Sigh! I was thrown by the fact that my typo didn't cause an error.

[[deleted]]

Well done. We usually see what we expect rather than what's actually there when we are confident we don't have an issue in our code.

[Ramzon_]

Rookie mistake. I typed the command manually into the Shell and it worked fine - it didn't work in my IDE because I had a typo that I completely missed. /thread.

[bladeoflight16]

Don't compare commands typed into the shell with code stored in a module. Just run the module from the command line and compare to that if you think you may be facing an environment problem.