On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
If you call:
subprocess.call(cmd, shell=False)
Then it works on Linux, but fails on Windows because it does not
perform the Windows %PATHEXT% search that allows it to find that
"svn.exe" is the actual executable to be invoked.
Maybe the Windows implementation should do its own
%PATHEXT% lookup when the shell is not being used.
+1 to that.
It's really nice to be able to *not* invoke a shell, and thus not have
to worry about the shell doing nasty things to your process spawning.
So, any solution that aids portability to windows without requiring
the invocation of a shell seems like a good thing to me.
James
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