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

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Tue Aug 26 04:17:32 CEST 2008

On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

If you call: subprocess.call(cmd, shell=False) Then it works on Linux, but fails on Windows because it does not perform the Windows %PATHEXT% search that allows it to find that "svn.exe" is the actual executable to be invoked. Maybe the Windows implementation should do its own %PATHEXT% lookup when the shell is not being used.

+1 to that.

It's really nice to be able to not invoke a shell, and thus not have
to worry about the shell doing nasty things to your process spawning.
So, any solution that aids portability to windows without requiring
the invocation of a shell seems like a good thing to me.

James

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