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[Python-ideas] Suprocess functionality partitioning

Richard Oudkerk shibturn at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 12:53:30 CEST 2013 
On 13/06/2013 2:59am, Andrew Barnert wrote:
>> shell=False, isinstance(args, list) ==> works normally
>
> Except that on Windows it has to build a string out of your args,
> attempting to craft the right string that the child will then parse
> back into the specified args. Which _usually_ works, but when you
> start doing complicated things with quoting it doesn't.

I was under the impression that this worked correctly (for executables 
compiled with Visual C which just use argv [1]).  But os.spawnv() is a 
total mess where you *do* need to worry about quoting.

[1] Nowadays other C compilers use the same rules.  But I think cmd may 
use different rules.

-- 
Richard
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