[Python-Dev] subprocess shell=True on Windows doesn't escape ^ character (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 00:30:30 CEST 2014


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Ryan <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

In all seriousness, to me this is obvious. When you pass a command to the shell, naturally, certain details are shell-specific.

-10000. Bad idea. Very bad idea. If you want the ^ to be escaped, do it yourself. Or better yet, don't pass shell=True.

Definitely the latter. Why pass shell=True when executing a single command? I don't get it.

ChrisA



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