Eric Wieser <wieser.eric+py...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> then we should perhaps instead consider the rewrite for 3.6: provide a *new* > distutils function that does use Popen and does things "right" (based on > everything we've learned since distutils was written), leaving the old > function in place, deprecated, for backward compatibility. Was any progress made towards achieving this? It's frustrating that the correct quoting behavior we get with `subprocess.Popen(List[str])` is not used by `spawn`, and now every level of distutils code has to think about whether it needs to quote its arguments for the shell. ---------- nosy: +Eric.Wieser _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue8987> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
