On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> wrote:
> As a side note: In most cases where shell=True is found, people > seem to need evaluation of the PATH variable. To my understanding, > > >>> from subprocess import call > >>> call(("ls",)) > > works in Linux, but (with dir) not in Windows. But that is misleading > because "dir" is a builtin command but "ls" is not. The same holds for > "del" (Windows) and "rm" (Linux). > > So I thought that using shell=True was a good Thing on windows, > but actually it is the start of all evil. > Using regular commands like "git" works fine on Windows and Linux > without the shell=True parameter. > > Perhaps it would be a good thing to emulate the builtin programs > in python by some shell=True replacement (emulate_shell=True?) > to match the normal user expectations without using the shell? > That feels like a terrible idea to me. How do you define "normal user expectations" here? If people want shell builtins they should just use shell=True. (Also note IIUC there are several quite different shells commonly used on Windows, e.g. PowerShell.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
_______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com