On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:15:49 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: > For shell=True I believe you should provide the command as a single > string, not a list of arguments.
Using shell=True with an argument list is valid. On Unix, it's seldom what you want: it will invoke /bin/sh to execute the first argument with $1, $2, ... set from the remaining arguments. On Windows, a list is converted to a string in the same manner regardless of the value of the "shell" argument. Specifying shell=True causes the command string to be executed via "cmd /c ...". This allows the "program" to be a script, whereas shell=False requires the program to be a binary executable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
