[issue43776] Popen with shell=True yield mangled repr output

mkocher added the comment: There also appears to be an issue when args are provided as a `pathlib.Path` instance. Python 3.9.2 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, Feb 21 2021, 05:02:20) Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information IPython 7.22.0 -- An enhanced

[issue43776] Popen with shell=True yield mangled repr output

mkocher added the comment: There's a PR up with removed `list` call as well as improved test coverage for the case where args is passed into Popen as a string. Hopefully this can get merged before things starting getting crazy with the 3.10 release crunch

[issue43776] Popen with shell=True yield mangled repr output

Change by mkocher : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +24073 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/25338 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue43776] Popen with shell=True yield mangled repr output

New submission from mkocher : When using Popen with shell=True, the output of the repr is not particularly user friendly. When using the form `p = Popen('python --version'.split())`, the output is reasonably output in a user friendly form of ``. However, when running with `shell=True