without shell

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-06-10, Mage <mage at mage.hu> wrote:

>>py> file_list = os.popen("ls").read()
>>
>>Stores the output of ls into file_list.
>>
> These commands invoke shell indeed.

Under Unix, popen will not invoke a shell if it's passed a
sequence rather than a single string.

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