[issue8557] subprocess portability issue

Mark Summerfield added the comment: IMO there's another problem with subprocess portablity---the lack of control over encodings: see issue 6135. -- nosy: +mark ___ Python tracker __

[issue8557] subprocess portability issue

Dave Abrahams added the comment: It's worse than I thought; there isn't even one setting for shell that works everywhere. This is what happens on POSIX (tested on Mac and Ubuntu): $ mkdir /tmp/xxx $ cd /tmp/xxx xxx $ virtualenv /tmp/zzz xxx $ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Mar 23 2010, 08:1

[issue8557] subprocess portability issue

New submission from Dave Abrahams : On POSIX systems, the PATH environment variable is always used to look up directory-less executable names passed as the first argument to Popen(...), but on Windows, PATH is only considered when shell=True is also passed. Actually I think it may be slightl