On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:11 AM, 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?

You need to write a wrapper script to automate several user commands. It is
quite common to use shell pipe redirection for joining many utils and calls

together than to rewrite data pipes in Python.