pdftotext can't find any of the files to convert when called within a python script

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i have a python script which keeps crashing on:

subprocess.call(["pdftotext", pdf_filename])

the error being:

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

the absolute path to the filename (which i am storing in a log file as i debug) is fine; on the command line, if i type pdftotext <pdf_filename_goes_here> it works for any of the alledgedly bad file names. but when called using subprocess in python i keep getting that error.

what is going on???

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