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

[Ryan Gonzalez]

Of course cmd.exe is hardcoded; there are no other shells on Windows! (I'm
purposely ignoring MinGW, Cygwin, command.com, etc.) If anything,
auto-escaping will break scripts that are already designed to escape carets
on Windows.


On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:54 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> SHELLS ARE NOT CROSS-PLATFORM!!!! Seriously, there are going to be
>> differences. If you really must:
>>
>> escape = lambda s: s.replace('^', '^^') if os.name == 'nt' else s
>>
>
> It is not about generic shell problem, it is about specific behavior that
> on Windows Python already uses cmd.exe shell hardcoded in its sources. So
> for crossplatform behavior on Windows, it should escape symbols on command
> passed to cmd.exe that are special to this shell to avoid breaking Python
> scripts. What you propose is a bad workaround, because it assumes that all
> Python users who use subprocess to execute hg or git should possess apriori
> knowledge about default subprocess behaviour with default shell on Windows
> and implement workaround for that.
>  --
> anatoly t.
>



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