Now we have 3 different outputs from 3 people to the command: >>> f = subprocess.Popen("set | grep IFS", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) >>> f.stdout.readlines()
>From me on FC5: ["BASH_EXECUTION_STRING='set | grep IFS'\n", "IFS=' \t\n"] >From Fredrik Lundh on unknown OS: ["IFS=$' \\t\\n'\n"] >From Sion Arrowsmith on Debian 1:3.3.5-12: ["IFS=' \t\n"] I found this problem while developing a CGI shell: http://code.google.com/p/cgpy-shell/ Although the cgi-shell is working quite well, this issue is a show stopper for that project. I need a stable/reliable output from Popen(). It looks like each bash or sh version outputs things differently, with different escaping. It is not a problem if there is only one or more than one line in the returned list as i will always get the last one. The problem is the escaping. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list