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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Jun 15 09:54:50 CEST 2014


On 15 June 2014 00:15, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

However, it says the Windows version uses CreateProcess, which doesn't use PATH.

Huh? CreateProcess uses PATH:

py -3.4 Python 3.4.0 (v3.4.0:04f714765c13, Mar 16 2014, 19:25:23) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import subprocess subprocess.checkcall(['echo', 'hello']) hello 0

"echo" is an executable "C:\Utils\GnuWin64\echo.exe" which is on PATH but not in the current directory...

Paul



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