Python Script for Traceroute and printing the output in file shows error( OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory) in Linux Mint

I am trying to perform traceroute on google.com using python script and write the output to a file ie output.txt

If I directly use subprocess.call('traceroute','google.com') it works perfectly fine and the output gets printed on the screen. Since I want to get the output in a file, I am using

subprocess.Popen(["tracert", '-w', '100', hostname],stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

and then writing the pipe data to file. However I get an error in this line i.e. OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Code :

import urllib import time import datetime, threading from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import urllib2 import subprocess import socket fp2=open("output.txt",'w') #This function will be executed after every x minutes def TraceRoute(): hostname="google.com" fp2.write(hostname+" : ") print(hostname) #subprocess.call(['traceroute',hostname]) traceroute = subprocess.Popen(["tracert", '-w', '100', hostname],stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) while (True): hop = traceroute.stdout.readline() if not hop: break print '-->',hop fp2.write( hop ) threading.Timer(60*50, TraceRoute).start() #Ensures periodic execution of TraceRoute( ) x=60*50 seconds TraceRoute() 

Error :

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "./scr3.py", line 87, in TraceRoute()

File "./scr3.py", line 76, in TraceRoute traceroute = subprocess.Popen(["tracert", '-w', '100', hostname],stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in init errread, errwrite)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child raise child_exception

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

How to resolve this ? I am stuck on this since forever. Please help