New submission from anatoly techtonik :
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#exceptions documentation is wrong at least for the case when shell=True on Linux. An attempt to execute a non-existent file with:
process = subprocess.Popen("sdfsdf", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=errpipe)
out, err = process.communicate()
print out
Results in a message "/bin/sh: sfs: command not found" with no exceptions. Other statements may be invalid too.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation, Library (Lib)
messages: 161329
nosy: docs@python, techtonik
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: invalid docs for subprocess exceptions with shell=True
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
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Python tracker
http://bugs.python.org/issue14879
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