Output from subprocess.Popen()

[Fredrik Lundh]

sjdevnull at yahoo.com wrote:

> I can't see any obvious way to ask subprocess to use a shell other than
> the default.

-c ?

 >>> f = Popen(["/bin/bash", "-c", "set|grep IFS"], stdout=PIPE)
 >>> f.stdout.read()
"IFS=$' \\t\\n'\n"
 >>> f = Popen(["/bin/sh", "-c", "set|grep IFS"], stdout=PIPE)
 >>> f.stdout.read()
"IFS=' \t\n"

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