Ben Finney wrote:
Miles Kaufmann <mile...@umich.edu> writes:
I would recommend avoiding shell=True whenever possible. It's used in
the examples, I suspect, to ease the transition from the functions
being replaced, but all it takes is for a filename or some other input
to unexpectedly contain whitespace or a metacharacter and your script
will stop working--or worse, do damage (cf. the iTunes 2 installer
debacle[1]).
Agreed, and that's my motivation for learning about ‘subprocess.Popen’.
Can someone explain the difference with the shell argument ? giving for
instance an example of what True will do that False won't. I mean, I've
read the doc, and to be honest, I didn't get it.
I'm concerned because I'm using subprocess, but I guess my shell arg has
been filled a little bit random..
JM
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