R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: It is not particularly intuitive what goes in to a Popen non-shell argument list, unless you are an experienced programmer. The real purpose of the note is to convey a lot of information about how tokenization works in a short example, and it also demonstrates how to investigate other complex cases the user may have to deal with. Because of the first part of that (showing tokenization quirks) I don't think it should be relegated to a footnote. That said, the example could perhaps be reworded slightly to make its expositional purpose clearer. Suggestions welcome. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13826> _______________________________________