[issue14242] Make subprocess.Popen aware of $SHELL

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Users who want to use the SHELL environment variable can do so on their own by using it as their executable and constructing an appropriate command line. Allowing an environment variable to change the behavior of a program that assumes shell=True is going

[issue14242] Make subprocess.Popen aware of $SHELL

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: POSIX documents SHELL variable: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html -- nosy: +Arfrever ___ Python tracker

[issue14242] Make subprocess.Popen aware of $SHELL

Éric Araujo added the comment: Note that it’s already possible to use any shell with the “executable” argument. Is there any official spec (i.e. POSIX) for the SHELL environment variable? -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker

[issue14242] Make subprocess.Popen aware of $SHELL

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- nosy: +gregory.p.smith versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue14242] Make subprocess.Popen aware of $SHELL

New submission from Dan Colish : The hardcoding of /bin/sh in the Popen _execute_child method can be a point of frustration when so many users are used to their chosen environment shell. The module can easily support the re-use of the defined $SHELL variable. I've attached a patch which gives