[Python-Dev] subprocess insufficiently platform-independent?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 25, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:30:58PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> Unless I'm misremembering (I no longer have access to Windows), I
>> believe that if you use ' '.join(cmd) as the first argument, it will
>> work cross-platform.
>
>   What about arguments that contain spaces?

Oh sure, throw a monkey wrench into it <wink>.

Guido's original problem statement is still correct though.  It's  
advertised to take a sequence of arguments, so that should work.

- -Barry

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