Chris Jerdonek added the comment:
> Also, what reason to get shell name from COMSPEC? What should we do if
> COMSPEC points to some another shell, not cmd.exe?
FWIW, the subprocess module does this (with surrounding code linked after):
comspec = os.environ.get("COMSPEC", "cmd.exe")
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/ed091424f230/Lib/subprocess.py#l1060
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