12 Jun
2014
12 Jun
'14
10:43 p.m.
On 13 Jun 2014 12:12, "Nikolaus Rath" <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote:
"R. David Murray" <rdmurray@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.
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.