[issue20344] subprocess.check_output() docs misrepresent what shell=True does
R. David Murray
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Jan 22 15:47:52 CET 2014
R. David Murray added the comment:
This was discussed in issue 6760. There I advocated (and still advocate) option (3). Unfortunately it looks like our doc update in that issue actually *lost* the documentation for your option (2) that used to be there, though it wasn't exactly clear what it meant when it was there.
So IMO we should do a doc update to add that info back in a clearer form, and also do a deprecation cycle to disallow shell=True with a sequence. I haven't ever gotten consensus from the other devs on the latter, though.
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nosy: +r.david.murray
stage: -> needs patch
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.4
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