[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The spawn* and exec* functions appear to escape asterisks, I'm
> guessing all shell characters too, before the spawn/exec'ed process
> sees them.
No. It is the shell that ordinarily processes these characters and gives
them a special meaning. On most systems, ls does not give any special
meaning to asterisk.
> Is there a way around this?
If you want to process asterisk the way the shell does, you can pass
things through the shell. os.system is one way of doing that. Probably
better is:
subprocess.check_call("ls -l *", shell=True)
Another way is using the glob module (and optionally
os.path.expanduser() for tilde expansion and os.path.expandvars() for
variable expansion, other things that are normally taken care of by the
shell).
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