12 Jun
2014
12 Jun
'14
8:13 a.m.
On 06/11/2014 07:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
ISTM what you want is not shell=True, but a separate function that follows the system policy for translating a command name into a path-to-binary. That's something that, AFAIK, doesn't currently exist in the Python 2 stdlib, but Python 3 has shutil.which(). If there's a PyPI backport of that for Py2, you should be able to use that to figure out the command name, and then avoid shell=False.
Huh. Next time, Chris, search the web before you post. Via a StackOverflow post, learned about distutils.spawn.find_executable().
--> import sys --> sys.executable '/usr/bin/python'