[Python-Dev] subprocess shell=True on Windows doesn't escape ^ character (original) (raw)
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
"R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> writes: > Also notice that using a list with shell=True is using the API > incorrectly. It wouldn't even work on Linux, so that torpedoes > the cross-platform concern already :) > > This kind of confusion is why I opened http://bugs.python.org/issue7839.
Can someone describe an use case where shell=True actually makes sense at all?
You need to write a wrapper script to automate several user commands. It is quite common to use shell pipe redirection for joining many utils and calls together than to rewrite data pipes in Python. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140614/802a0168/attachment.html>
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