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

Robert Brewer fumanchu at aminus.org
Mon Aug 25 19:32:36 CEST 2008


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Several people at Google seem to have independently discovered that despite all of the platform-independent goodness in subprocess.py, you still need to be platform aware.

I can verify this. For CP we went back to using spawnl, but in an internal project we checked sys.platform and set shell=True for Windows.

Robert Brewer fumanchu at aminus.org



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