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

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 01:00:55 CEST 2014


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

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

I don't know about Linux, but on Windows programs are not directly available as /usr/bin/python, so you need to find command in PATH directories. Passing shell=True makes this lookup done by shell and not manually. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140612/f2d03e31/attachment-0001.html>



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