STINNER Victor <[email protected]> added the comment:
> I tried to add a shell argument (to be able to disable the shell) and
> to accept any Popen keyword, but I don't know how to implement
> shell=False if the input is a list of arguments. list2cmdline() is
> unsafe on UNIX (see #8972).
Example of function to escape a list of arguments on UNIX:
def escapeargs(*args):
return ' '.join(pipes.quote(arg) for arg in args)
R. David Murray disagree with me to allow getoutput(list) (shell=True) because
Popen(list, shell=True) behaves differently.
subprocess.Popen(['echo Hello'], shell=True) writes 'Hello', whereas
subprocess.Popen(['echo', 'Hello'], shell=True) writes nothing (because echo
has no argument.
I would like to do something like that: getoutput(['echo', 'Hello']) calls
Popen('echo Hello', shell=True) using escapeargs() function defined above. So
getoutput(list) calls shell -c "arg1 arg2", whereas Popen(list, shell=True)
calls shell -c "arg1" arg2 arg3 ...
See also issue #7839 for Popen(str, shell=False) and Popen(list, shell=True)
cases.
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