changing current dir and executing a shell script

Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org
Sat May 28 17:52:55 EDT 2011


On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 09:41 +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
> > You don't want to do this because "cd" is a built-in shell command,
> and
> > subprocess does not execute within a shell (by default).
> 
> The problem is not that cd is built-in, but that there is no shell at
> all. 
> You can change that with shell=True: 

This is exactly what I said, but using different words.




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