Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 04:43:56 CEST 2014

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On 13 Jun 2014 12:12, "Nikolaus Rath" <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
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> "R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> writes:
> > Also notice that using a list with shell=True is using the API
> > incorrectly.  It wouldn't even work on Linux, so that torpedoes
> > the cross-platform concern already :)
> >
> > This kind of confusion is why I opened http://bugs.python.org/issue7839.
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> Can someone describe an use case where shell=True actually makes sense
> at all?

When you're writing platform specific code, it's occasionally useful. It's
generally best avoided, though.

Cheers,
Nick.
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