Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> I don't think we should document this level of detail But a lot of it -- most of it -- is also strange behavior that no one would expect without reading about it somewhere. Most users of subprocess.Popen() will never wade through the documentation of CreateProcessW, SearchPathW, ShellExecuteExW, and cmd.exe -- to the extent that the behavior is usefully and correctly documented by Microsoft. One of the reasons I bother writing it out in detail here is to make the case for always using shutil.which(), regardless of the value of `shell` (unless shell=True is being used beyond the filesystem scope). We have complete control of the implementation and documentation of shutil.which(). I don't want that advice to be narrowed down to just talking about running "python". ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue42041> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
