[LDTP-Dev] [Bug 586698] New: tutorial describes incorrect function usage

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  LDTP | general | Ver: unspecified
           Summary: tutorial describes incorrect function usage
           Product: LDTP
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: ldtp-maint at gnome.bugs
        ReportedBy: dilinger at collabora.co.uk
         QAContact: ldtp-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


The tutorial at http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/doc/ldtp-tutorial.pdf
using launchapp("gedit", 1) to launch applications.  However, this doesn't
appear to actually work.

With ldtp 1.6, I get the following:

Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 17 2009, 20:16:45) 
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from ldtp import *
>>> launchapp("gedit", 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/ldtp.py", line 3675, in launchapp
    arg.insert (0, appName)
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'insert'


With ldtp 1.2 (from debian stable), I get the following:

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan  4 2009, 17:40:26) 
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from ldtp import *
>>> launchapp("gedit", 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/ldtp.py", line 3173, in launchapp
    os.execvpe (appName, arg, envVar)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 363, in execvpe
    _execvpe(file, args, env)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 390, in _execvpe
    func(fullname, *argrest)
TypeError: execve() arg 2 must be a tuple or list


Note that in both cases, dropping the second argument allows launchapp to
succeed.  The tutorial should be updated to drop the second arg as well.


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