cleaning a few print statements. Still need to finish fixing commands

runOPAL/simulation.py

@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ class Simulation:
         # If there's already a directory remove it...
         if os.path.isdir(self.dirname):
             if doKeep:
-                print( 'KEEP existing directory ', self.dirname)
+                print( 'KEEP existing directory {}'.format(self.dirname))
                 print( self.dirname)
                 return False
             else:
-                print( 'REMOVE existing directory ', self.dirname)
+                print( 'REMOVE existing directory {}'.format(self.dirname))
                 shutil.rmtree(self.dirname)
 
         # create directory
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class Simulation:
         else:
             opalexe = 'opal'
 
-        print( 'Simulation directory is ' + self.dirname + ' using OPAL at ', os.environ.get('OPAL_EXE_PATH'))
+        print( 'Simulation directory is {} using OPAL at {}'.format(self.dirname, os.environ.get('OPAL_EXE_PATH')))
         print( 'Using templatefile at ' + inputfilePath)
         print( 'Using fieldmaps at    ' + fieldmapPath)
         print( 'Parameter set in ' + oinpFile + ' are:')
@@ -189,11 +189,12 @@ class Simulation:
             return qid
 
         if doNobatch:
-            print( 'Done with setup of the OPAL simulation and executing the job on ' + str(CORES) + ' cores...\n\n\n')
+            print( 'Done with setup of the OPAL simulation and executing the job on {} cores...\n\n\n'.format(CORES)) 
             ofn, fileExtension = os.path.splitext(oinpFile)
             print( 'STD output is written to {}.out'.format(ofn))
-            execommand = 'mpirun -np ' + str(CORES)  + ' ' + opalexe + ' ' + oinpFile + '  2>&1 | tee ' + ofn + '.out'
-            qid = subprocess.check_output(execommand)
+            #execommand = 'mpirun -np ' + str(CORES)  + ' ' + opalexe + ' ' + oinpFile + '  2>&1 | tee ' + ofn + '.out'
+            outfile = ofn +'.out'
+            qid = subprocess.call(['mpirun', '-np ', str(CORES), opalexe, oinpFile, '2>&1','|','tee',outfile])
             os.chdir('..')
             return -1
         else: