problem using subprocess.call

[Fredrik Lundh]

Alex Kachanov wrote:

>>    subprocess.call(["find", dir, "-name", "*.zip", "-execdir", "unzip", "{}", ";"])
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> Ok, thanks, it works.
> But what's the difference? Why I can't pass all parameters as one string?

because there's no one around to split them up for you.

after all, that's the whole point of running another program without going though the
shell: what you pass in ends up, as is, in the other program's argument array.

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