problems executing shell

def shell(cmd, shell=False):
    if shell:
      p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
    else:
      cmd = cmd.split()
      p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
    output, err = p.communicate()
    return output

def score(mol, orig_mol='1OYT-FSN.pdbqt', prot='1OYT-receptor.pdbqt'): #doesnt work
  proteiname=prot.split('-')[0]
  molname=mol.split('.')[0]
  output_filename=f'{proteiname}-{molname}-redock.pdbqt'
  out = shell([
   './smina.static',
  '-r', prot,
  '-l', mol,
  ' --autobox_ligand', orig_mol,
  '--autobox_add', '8',
   '--exhaustiveness', '8',
   '-o', output_filename], shell=False)


def score(mol, orig_mol='1OYT-FSN.pdbqt', prot='1OYT-receptor.pdbqt'): #work
  proteiname=prot.split('-')[0]
  molname=mol.split('.')[0]
  output_filename=f'{proteiname}-{molname}-redock.pdbqt'
  out = shell(f'''./smina.static -r {prot} -l {mol} --autobox_ligand
{orig_mol} --autobox_add 8 --exhaustiveness 8 -o {output_filename}''',shell=False)