Using subprocess to run Python script on Windows

Is there a simple way to run a Python script on Windows/Linux/OS X?

On the latter two, subprocess.Popen("/the/script.py") works, but on Windows I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_functional.py", line 91, in test_functional
    log = tvnamerifiy(tmp)
  File "test_functional.py", line 49, in tvnamerifiy
    stdout = PIPE
  File "C:\Python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 804, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application

monkut's comment: The use case isn't clear. Why use subprocess to run a python script? Is there something preventing you from importing the script and calling the necessary function?

I was writing a quick script to test the overall functionality of a Python-command-line tool (to test it on various platforms). Basically it had to create a bunch of files in a temp folder, run the script on this and check the files were renamed correctly.

I could have imported the script and called the function, but since it relies on sys.argv and uses sys.exit(), I would have needed to do something like..

import sys
import tvnamer
sys.argv.append("-b", "/the/folder")
try:
    tvnamer.main()
except BaseException, errormsg:
    print type(errormsg)

Also, I wanted to capture the stdout and stderr for debugging incase something went wrong.

Of course a better way would be to write the script in more unit-testable way, but the script is basically "done" and I'm doing a final batch of testing before doing a "1.0" release (after which I'm going to do a rewrite/restructure, which will be far tidier and more testable)

Basically, it was much easier to simply run the