Hi.
I don't like that subprocess.Popen(['command']) only works on Windows if there
is a command.exe in %PATH%. As a Windows user you would normally expect that
also command.bat and command.cmd can be run that way.
There are simple workarounds like Popen(..., shell=True) but that is a heavy
overhead for .exe files.
Currently I use pywin32 and call Popen([win32api.FindExecutable('command')[1]])
as a workaround. This has zero overhead.
It should be default for Popen to call FindExecutable internally.
Was this discussed before?
Is it worth a PEP?
Or at least an issue?
Cheers,
Stefan
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