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

[Tim Golden]

On 15/06/2014 02:22, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> Of course cmd.exe is hardcoded;

Of course it's not:

(from Lib/subprocess.py)

comspec = os.environ.get("COMSPEC", "cmd.exe")

I don't often expect, in these post-command.com days, to get anything 
other than cmd.exe. But alternative command processors are certainly 
possible.

TJG