On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote:
> "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> writes: > > Also notice that using a list with shell=True is using the API > > incorrectly. It wouldn't even work on Linux, so that torpedoes > > the cross-platform concern already :) > > > > This kind of confusion is why I opened http://bugs.python.org/issue7839. > > Can someone describe an use case where shell=True actually makes sense > at all? > You need to write a wrapper script to automate several user commands. It is quite common to use shell pipe redirection for joining many utils and calls together than to rewrite data pipes in Python.
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