On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com>: >> PowerShell is far more invasive. Instead of giving the child process a >> handle for the file, it gives it a handle for a *pipe*. PowerShell >> reads from the pipe, and like an annoying busybody that no asked for, >> decodes the output as text, > > You mean, a bit like Python3 does?
The closest to what we're talking about here would be using subprocess.Popen and friends to create pipelines and redirect output to files. Opening a file defaults to text mode in Python for how Python access the file, but if you pass a file descriptor as Popen's stdout argument, Python isn't acting as a middle man. The child process writes directly to the file. PowerShell makes itself a middle man in the cases of file redirection and pipelines. It does this to enable all of the capabilities of its object pipeline. That's fine. But, IMO, there should be a simple way to get the plain-old redirection and piping in which the shell is not a middle man. The simplest way I know to do that in PowerShell is to run the command line via `cmd /c`. But I'm no PowerShell expert. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list