Spaces in path name

[Gertjan Klein]

joep wrote:

>* If shell=True is required, then the executable is a build-in shell
>command, which does not contain spaces, and, therefore, has no
>problems

This is only true when you are referring to directly executable files.
However, Shell=True is also required when you want to "execute" a file
by it's association. For example, if you want to execute a ".pyw" file
directly (i.e., by using whichever python executable is associated with
that extension), you need Shell=True.

IMHO, the subprocess module should not have been included as-is in the
Python library. It is counter-intuitive, buggy, ill-documented, and has
needless limitations in functionality.

Regards,
Gertjan.

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Gertjan Klein <gklein at xs4all.nl>