The spawn* and exec* functions appear to escape asterisks, I'm guessing all shell characters too, before the spawn/exec'ed process sees them. Is there a way around this?
Not sure if this is a bug or a "feature". user$ touch test.txt user$ ls -l * -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 Apr 18 18:30 test.txt user$ ls -l \* ls: *: No such file or directory user$ python Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 12 2006, 00:08:11) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.system("ls -l *") -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 Apr 18 18:30 test.txt 0 >>> os.spawnvp(os.P_WAIT, "ls", ("ls", "-l", "*")) ls: *: No such file or directory 1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list