subprocess.Popen under windows 7

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Fri Dec 9 04:28:07 EST 2011


On 09/12/2011 08:32, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> Am 08.12.2011 23:41, schrieb Frank van den Boom:
>> arglist = [PATH_TO_7ZIP,"a", "-sfx", archive_name, "*", "-r",
>> "-p",PASSWORD]
>
> The "*" is resolved by the shell, this is not a wildcard that gets
> passed to the program. At least not normally, your case might be different.

"... not normally" == "... not on Unix". On Windows, the shell
doesn't do any wildcard expansion. The OP is asking about behaviour
on Windows 7.

TJG



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