popen eating quotes?

[Jeff Epler]

This has been discussed before.  One such thread that I participated in
was
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=0000161b%40bossar.com.pl&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dshell%2Bquoting%2Bnt%2Bgroup:comp.lang.python%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D0000161b%2540bossar.com.pl%26rnum%3D1%26filter%3D0
[apologies for the long URL, I don't know how to get a good memorable
URL for a google groups search]

This really is a cesspool on Windows, and the fault isn't Python's.
Python is just calling the Windows functions, which insist on behaving
badly compared to the Unix behavior.

unix bigot'ly yours,
jeff