[Python-Dev] subprocess insufficiently platform-independent?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> 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.

That will mean something different if there are spaces or shell
metacharacters in the arguments.

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