[Python-Dev] subprocess insufficiently platform-independent? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Aug 25 19:34:09 CEST 2008


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

Unless I'm misremembering (I no longer have access to Windows), I believe that if you use ' '.join(cmd) as the first argument, it will work cross-platform.

That will mean something different if there are spaces or shell metacharacters in the arguments.

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