Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 00:30:30 CEST 2014

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On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Ryan <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> In all seriousness, to me this is obvious. When you pass a command to the
> shell, naturally, certain details are shell-specific.
>
> -10000. Bad idea. Very bad idea. If you want the ^ to be escaped, do it
> yourself. Or better yet, don't pass shell=True.

Definitely the latter. Why pass shell=True when executing a single
command? I don't get it.

ChrisA

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