Cmd too big

Need Help With My Project
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Hello old friends. I’m back trying to launch programs with my Raspberry Pi, but now I have a Pi 4 and I was never really satisfied with using nodejs, because … ew.
Anyway, I’m trying new things and attempting to launch programs using blynk with Python.
I found some handy code samples and some help on this forum Python Terminal (updates and FIFO) but, when I try to run my simple program I get this error “('Cmd too big: ', 8245)”
Any idea what’s going on? I’ve tried it multiple ways, but every time I get this error, it seems.
thanks for the help
-J

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys
import errno
import BlynkLib

BLYNK_AUTH = 'd84d576c8bdb4ca2a7c459949396b47b'
blynk = BlynkLib.Blynk(BLYNK_AUTH)
playing = "0"
eca = None

@blynk.VIRTUAL_WRITE(1)
def v1_write_handler(value):
    global playing
    global eca
    if value[0] == '1':
        print  '1';
        os.system('top')
        eca = subprocess.Popen(['top']).pid
        print(eca)
        playing = "1"
    if value[0] == '0':
        if playing == "0":
            return
        eca.terminate()
        playing = "0"
        print  '0'

@blynk.ON("connected")
def blynk_connected():
    print  'connected';

while True:
    blynk.run()