[Python-Dev] subprocess insufficiently platform-independent?

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> If you call:
> 
>     subprocess.call(cmd, shell=False)
> 
> Then it works on Linux, but fails on Windows because it does not
> perform the Windows %PATHEXT% search that allows it to find that
> "svn.exe" is the actual executable to be invoked.

Maybe the Windows implementation should do its own
%PATHEXT% lookup when the shell is not being used.

-- 
Greg