[Python-3000] os.popen versus subprocess.Popen

[Andrew McNabb]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:57:56PM -0300, Facundo Batista wrote:
> 
> - Why can't I write "ls -l", instead of ["ls", "-l"] (people ends
> writing "ls -l".split())

That's the best thing about subprocess.  Whenever I've used APIs that
accept a single string instead of list of arguments, I've quickly
descended into quoting hell.


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