On 2016-10-27 00:57, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
The structure of the command you are trying to execute would require you to set the "shell" argument of subprocess.call to True. Specifically, the "<" redirection operator is shell functionality.
Thank you Wolfgang. Simply eliminating the call to shlex.split() made everything work as desired.
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as long as you promise to NEVER use that code in production with user input. The problem with it is that it may allow users to inject shell commands as they like exactly because whatever ends up in the command string gets interpreted by the shell.
I promise! Thanks again. Alex _____________________________________________
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