[Python-Dev] subprocess shell=True on Windows doesn't escape ^ character

[anatoly techtonik]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why pass shell=True when executing a single
> command? I don't get it.
>

I don't know about Linux, but on Windows programs are not directly
available as /usr/bin/python, so you need to find command in PATH
directories. Passing shell=True makes this lookup done by shell and not
manually.
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