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Title: Docs for os, popen2 omit list argument to popen2() et al
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Components: Documentation Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: Nosy List: hoffman, jlgijsbers
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Created on 2004-03-01 11:00 by hoffman, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg20153 - (view) Author: Michael Hoffman (hoffman) Date: 2004-03-01 11:00
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/os-newstreams.html
and
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-popen2.html
do not give any indication that you can use a list for
cmd instead of a string and os.execvp() will be used
instead of setting up a subshell.
msg20154 - (view) Author: Johannes Gijsbers (jlgijsbers) * (Python triager) Date: 2004-10-16 10:59
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Patch #1042705, applied a while ago, fixed this.
msg20155 - (view) Author: Michael Hoffman (hoffman) Date: 2004-10-17 10:54
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Thanks!
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2022-04-11 14:56:03adminsetgithub: 39995
2004-03-01 11:00:52hoffmancreate