[Python-3000] os.popen versus subprocess.Popen

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:39:11PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> "cat %s" % filename
> 
> then your program would break if filename contained spaces.

   It'd break even worse if the filename contains ';' or any other
command-separated character (&&, ||, etc.)

Oleg.
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