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copied!<p>First, <code>subprocess.Popen</code>'s first arg should generally be a list (unless you also pass <code>shell=True</code>). The <code>No such file or directory</code> is almost certainly caused by the absence of a file named <code>"htmldoc -t pdf --quiet '...</code> on the system (it's trying to find and run the program named for the whole string value). </p> <p>Second, if you give htmldoc some html on its stdin, it'll spit out a pdf on its stdout, thus avoiding the need for a temporary file. </p> <p>Give this a try (untested):</p> <pre><code>htmldoc = subprocess.Popen( ['/usr/bin/htmldoc', '-t', 'pdf', '--webpage', '-'], stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE ) stdout, stderr = htmldoc.communicate(html) </code></pre> <p>NB: substitute <code>/usr/bin/htmldoc</code> for the real path to htmldoc on your system. </p> <p>The <code>-</code> argument to the htmldoc program, tells it to read from stdin. You'll pass your html string value (<code>html</code>) to htmldoc's <code>stdin</code> as an argument to the <code>htmldoc.communicate</code> call. The resulting pdf output should be available in <code>stdout</code>, and any other messages or stats in <code>stderr</code>. </p> <p><strong>Edit</strong>: The documentation does seem a bit wonky, but there is quite a bit of it. You might have better luck with the <a href="https://www.msweet.org/documentation/project1/HTMLDOC.html" rel="nofollow">html in one page</a> or <a href="https://www.msweet.org/documentation/project1/HTMLDOC.pdf" rel="nofollow">pdf</a> versions, or the <a href="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/en/man1/htmldoc.1.html" rel="nofollow">man page</a>. </p> <p>Also, be sure to pass a string, or similar, to the stdin of the htmldoc process. Passing a StringIO object directly, as was implied by my previous code snippet, won't work. </p>

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