Avoiding shell metacharacters in os.popen

[Michael Hudson]

Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> writes:

> Michael Hoffman <m.h.3.9.1.without.dots.at.cam.ac.uk at example.com> wrote:
> >  Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > As I pointed out in my post there isn't an equivalent for
> > > os.popen* which doesn't go via the shell (except for undocumented
> > > os.popen2).
> > 
> >  Is it the undocumented nature of it that is unnerving you?
> 
> Yes!  If it was documented then it would have to be made to work on
> Windows too I gues.

I think this might be part of the reason it's underdocumented.  I also
have a sneaking suspicion it's impossible on windows, but don't really
know...

Cheers,
mwh

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