Zsolt Cserna <zsolt.cse...@morganstanley.com> added the comment: I would say that both string and list should be accepted in args, and depending on the shell parameter, the module should create a list or a string from the specified list/string.
We already have a list2cmdline function to convert a list to string, we would only need to create the inverse of this function to convert a string to a list. Executing a program whose parameters are coming from external source (eg. user input) can result security problems if those are not specified as a list and in this case I would be really happy to specify my parameters as a list to Popen and it would do the appropriate conversions as above. ---------- nosy: +csernazs _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7839> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
