Script causes errors that don't happen when python run via command line

Question

Previous Research:

• Running a Python script from PHP
• error on using exec() to call python script
• Php exec python script 'weakness'/downside
• Using exec() to run python script in PHP

I am running php version 5.6.6 and python version 3.4.3 on OS X.

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Basically, the problem that I am running into is that if I run a python script via command line it works find but if I run it through a PHP script (using exec()) I get this error:

AttributeError: type object 'int' has no attribute 'from_bytes'

I have created and tested a miniature isolated test case to show the problem. I have already done a chmod 777 mypy.py to make sure mypy.py is executable.

myphp.php:

<?php

exec("/usr/bin/python mypy.py 1A", $output, $return);
var_dump($output);

mypy.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import string
import array
import binascii
import sys

if __name__ == "__main__":
    hexval = sys.argv[1]
    binval = binascii.unhexlify(hexval)
    binint = int.from_bytes(binval, byteorder='big', signed=False)
    print("int: " + str(binint))

(I know there are better ways to accomplish what is being done in this python script, I was just making a test case that would produce the same error)

When I run python mypy.py 1F via command line, I get this printed:

int: 31

But when I run php myphp.php via command line, I get this printed:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "mypy.py", line 11, in <module>
    binint = int.from_bytes(binval, byteorder='big', signed=False)
AttributeError: type object 'int' has no attribute 'from_bytes'
array(0) {
}

(Note: I have also executed whoami from the php script just to verify that my normal user is the one running the python script)

Answer 1

int has no method .from_bytes in python2,/usr/bin/python uses the python 2 interpreter, you need to use /usr/bin/python3 to use your python3 interpreter.

exec("/usr/bin/python3 mypy.py 1A", $output, $return);

Making the file executable is also irrelevant as you are explicitly running it with python.

To run it as an executable and use the python3 interpreter specify the correct python version in your python shebang:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

Then:

exec("./mypy.py 1A", $output, $return);

Answer 2

Sorry for previous edits, I misread the question. Are you sure that python in cli and /usr/bin/python resolve to the same binary? The behavior I see tells me PHP is trying to use Python 2.x (because int object doesn't have method from_bytes).