Subprocess command shows FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Question

I'm trying to run shell commands using python by using subprocess module in the below code, but I don't why my script is throwing an error like below. Can someone help me what I'm missing?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Scripts/test_file.py", line 6, in <module>
    p2 = subprocess.Popen('sed s\'/&quot;/ /g\'', stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "sed s'/&quot;/ /g'"`

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import subprocess
#output3.txt='/Users/boggulv/Desktop/output3.txt'
p1 = subprocess.Popen( ['cat', 'output3.txt'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
print(p1)
p2 = subprocess.Popen('sed s\'/"/ /g\'', stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p3 = subprocess.Popen('grep "sO"', stdin=p2.stdout,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p4 = subprocess.Popen('grep -v "get"', stdin=p3.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p5 = subprocess.Popen('cut -d \',\' -f2', stdin=p4.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p6 = subprocess.Popen('sed \'s/"//g\'', stdin=p5.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p7 = subprocess.Popen('sort', stdin=p6.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p8 = subprocess.Popen('sort', stdin=p8.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p9 = subprocess.Popen('uniq -c', stdin=p8.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p0 = subprocess.Popen('sort -nr', stdin=p9.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
print(p01.communicate())

Tried now changing to lists.

p2 = subprocess.Popen('sed \'s/"/ /g\'', stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
p3 = subprocess.Popen(['grep','"shipOption"'], stdin=p2.stdout,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell = True)
p4 = subprocess.Popen(['grep','-v', '"getShipMethod"'], stdin=p3.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell = True)
p5 = subprocess.Popen(['cut','-d','\',\'', '-f2'], stdin=p4.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell = True)
p6 = subprocess.Popen(['sed','\'s/"//g\''],stdin=p5.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell = True)
p7 = subprocess.Popen(['sort'], stdin=p6.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell = True)
p8 = subprocess.Popen(['uniq', '-c'], stdin=p7.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell = True)
p9 = subprocess.Popen(['sort', '-nr'], stdin=p8.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell = True)
p0 = subprocess.Popen(['head', '-10'], stdin=p9.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell = True)```

New Error:

`usage: grep [-abcdDEFGHhIiJLlMmnOopqRSsUVvwXxZz] [-A num] [-B num] [-C[num]]
        [-e pattern] [-f file] [--binary-files=value] [--color=when]
        [--context[=num]] [--directories=action] [--label] [--line-buffered]
        [--null] [pattern] [file ...]
usage: grep [-abcdDEFGHhIiJLlMmnOopqRSsUVvwXxZz] [-A num] [-B num] [-C[num]]
        [-e pattern] [-f file] [--binary-files=value] [--color=when]
        [--context[=num]] [--directories=action] [--label] [--line-buffered]
        [--null] [pattern] [file ...]
usage: cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
       cut -c list [file ...]
       cut -f list [-s] [-w | -d delim] [file ...]
(b'', None)
cat: stdin: Input/output error`

Answer 1

As per Gordon above - by default Popen() treats

sed 's/"/ /g'

as the name of a command to run rather than a command name plus one argument. So you need to do one of the following:

p2 = subprocess.Popen(['sed', 's/"/ /g'], stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

or

p2 = subprocess.Popen('sed \'s/"/ /g\'', stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)

The use of shell=True gets the Popen function to split the string into a list containing the command and arguments for you.

Also note, that p0 is your last result, but you call p01.communicate()