We've got a windows executable which used to get run out of a shell script (Cygwin bash) and is now being run with subprocess.Popen(). The windows app is misbehaving. To make a long story short, the guy who wrote the code in question says,
> it's all based on the return values of the WinAPI calls GetACP and GetOEMCP > [...] so maybe Python is doing something like setting the active code page > and OEM code page prior to the point when they "exec" stuff? Does Python do these things? I'm using Python 2.5.1. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list