On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Ryan <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
In all seriousness, to me this is obvious. When you pass a command to the shell, naturally, certain details are shell-specific.
On Windows cmd.exe is used by default: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/38a325c84564/Lib/subprocess.py#l1108 so it makes sense to make default behavior cross-platform.
-10000. Bad idea. Very bad idea. If you want the ^ to be escaped, do it yourself. Or better yet, don't pass shell=True.
Definitely the latter. Why pass shell=True when executing a single command? I don't get it.
This is a complete use case using Rietveld upload script: http://techtonik.rainforce.org/2013/07/code-review-with-rietveld-and-mercuri... I am interested to know how to modify upload script without kludges: https://code.google.com/p/rietveld/source/browse/upload.py#1056 I expect many people are facing with the same problem trying to wrap Git and HG with Python scripts. -- anatoly t.