Popen3-style os.execl?

[Michael Hudson]

Chris Green <cmg at dok.org> writes:

> Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:
> 
> > Um.  Can't you pass a list to the Popen3 constructor?
> 
> Well, by golly ya can.  Since cmd is only ever one argument in the
> docs, I've never known that you could do this.

Ah, uh, right: this isn't documented.  I'm not sure why... as noted,
it doesn't work on Windows, but then if you were talking about execl,
you presumably aren't that concerned.

Cheers,
mwh

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