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. ---------- nosy: +eryksun versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30979> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
