Question

I’m trying to start a phantomjs process from python but for some reason it’s not finding my script file:

    PHANTOM = 'C:\\Users\\ahald1\\phantomjs'
    SCRIPT = 'C:\\Users\\ahald1\\hello.js'
    params = [PHANTOM, SCRIPT]
    exitcode = subprocess.call(params)

Where hello.js contains:

    console.log('Hello, world!');
    phantom.exit();

This returns Can't open 'C:\Users\ahald1\hello.js'

Trying to do this from cmd returns the same error, but phantomjs --version does return a value. I’m running python 2.7.3 on Windows 7.

Sorry for the newbie question and thanks so much in advance!

Answer 1

Most likely, you have saved the file hello.js under a different file name, for example hello.js.txt. This may happen if you save a file in Notepad or another editor with a file type other than All Files. Make sure to enable file extension display.

Alternatively, you may have saved the hello.js file in a different directory than C:\Users\ahald1\.