On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Zabin <zabin.faris...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > and just wondering- whats the drawback of using os.system() command
Forgetting to properly escape your input. Simple example:
filename = "foo bar.txt"
os.system("rm "+filename) # uh-oh, we deleted 'foo' and 'bar.txt' instead
The `subprocess` module makes escaping unnecessary.
Cheers,
Chris
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