[issue1475] test_popen fails when the directory contains a space

Peter Åstrand report at bugs.python.org
Wed Nov 21 08:48:02 CET 2007


Peter Åstrand added the comment:

I think there's some confusion in this bug. The report on
http://pastebin.com/fa947767 indicates a problem in test_popen. This is
a test for os.popen() and it does not have anything to do with the
subprocess module. I believe it is test_popen.py that should be fixed. 

In general, quoting in Windows is very difficult. The documentation
quoted in msg57701 might be correct for some modern version of Windows,
but not for, say, command.com on an older Windows version. I believe the
subprocess is fairly complete when it comes to quoting etc, so changes
should be avoided if possible. 

Since this bug is not about the subprocess module, I've re-assigned to
nobody, hope this is OK.

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