New submission from Pascal Chambon <chambon.pas...@gmail.com>: I feel the description of the subprocess.popen semantics is a little incomplete/confusing to me, on some points, eg. : - what does the "shell" argument do on windows, exactly ? The beginning of the description states that nothing changes (createProcess() is used in any way), but later "COMSPEC" and "shell" are quoted, and their effect is unclear on windows... -"If cwd is not None, the child’s current directory will be changed to cwd before it is executed. Note that this directory is not considered when searching the executable, so you can’t specify the program’s path relative to cwd." -> maybe we should precise that only the "executable" argument is concerned, not the 'executable' program name which might be given as first item in "args" argument (and which is, on the contrary, searched relatively to "cwd" argument) -for the "bufsize" argument, it would be handy to precise which buffer size is set (of which file descriptors exactly ? Of Pipes only ?)
Regards, P. Chambon ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 89854 nosy: georg.brandl, pakal severity: normal status: open title: Confused by subprocess API documentation versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6374> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
