python 2.7.12 on Linux behaving differently than on Windows
Lew Pitcher
lew.pitcher at digitalfreehold.ca
Mon Dec 5 11:41:22 EST 2016
On Monday December 5 2016 10:41, in comp.lang.python, "BartC" <bc at freeuk.com>
wrote:
> On 05/12/2016 15:05, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:11 AM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW what does Popen() do when one argument is '*.*'? Will that get
>>> expanded to multiple extra arguments, and at what point will it be
>>> expanded?
>>
>> Nope. Popen is not a shell.
>>
>> It sounds as if you want a nerfed shell. Go ahead! I'm sure one
>> exists. It'll frustrate you no end once you get used to a better
>> shell, though - always does when I find myself on Windows...
>
> That's not the point I was making.
>
> Say you have this program a.py:
>
> import sys
> print (sys.argv)
>
> And let's say there are just 3 files in the current directory: a.py,
> b.py and c.py.
>
> If run from a Linux shell:
>
> python a.py *
>
> The output is: ['a.py', 'b.py', 'c.py'] or something along those lines
> (there might be two copies of a.py).
And, that's because, before invoking Popen, the SHELL has globbed that '*'
argument into the three filenames and substituted those names where the '*'
was.
If you don't use a shell, then (on Unix), you have to perform the globbing
yourself before invoking Popen.
>
> Are you saying that if someone executes:
>
> subprocess.Popen(["python","a.py", "*"])
>
> the output will be: ['a.py','*']?
>
> In that case forget Windows vs. Linux, you now have a program that will
> get command parameters processed differently depending on whether it was
> invoked from a shell or not.
Yes.
> Or a program that sometimes will see "*" as an argument, and sometimes a
> big list of files that merges into all the other arguments.
>
Yes.
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