[issue30979] the winapi fails to run shortcuts (because considers a shortcut not a valid Win32App)

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun added the comment:

subprocess.Popen calls WinAPI CreateProcess, which can execute PE/COFF executables and .BAT/.CMD batch scripts. It doesn't know anything about .LNK shell shortcuts. If CreateProcess fails, a Windows shell (e.g. CMD or PowerShell) tries ShellExecuteEx, which knows how to open a .LNK file. You can use shell=True for this in Python.

Directly supporting ShellExecuteEx would be a major enhancement. It would probably require a new keyword-only parameter, or at least a sentinel value for the existing `shell` parameter.

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nosy: +eryksun
versions:  -Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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