Dave Abrahams <d...@boostpro.com> added the comment: It's worse than I thought; there isn't even one setting for shell that works everywhere. This is what happens on POSIX (tested on Mac and Ubuntu):
$ mkdir /tmp/xxx $ cd /tmp/xxx xxx $ virtualenv /tmp/zzz xxx $ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Mar 23 2010, 08:10:08) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from subprocess import * >>> p = Popen(['python', '-c', 'import sys;print sys.executable'], ... stdin=PIPE,stdout=PIPE,stderr=PIPE, ... env={'PATH':'/tmp/zzz/bin'}) >>> stdout,stderr = p.communicate(None) >>> print stdout /tmp/zzz/bin/python >>> print stderr >>> p = Popen(['python', '-c', 'import sys;print sys.executable'], shell=True, ... stdin=PIPE,stdout=PIPE,stderr=PIPE, ... env={'PATH':'/tmp/zzz/bin'}) >>> stdout,stderr = p.communicate(None) >>> print stdout >>> print stderr ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8557> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com