On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:15:49 -0500, Steve Holden wrote:
>
> > For shell=True I believe you should provide the command as a single
> > string, not a list of arguments.
>
> Using shell=True with an argument list is valid.
>
> On Unix, it's seldom what you want: it will invoke /bin/sh to execute the
> first argument with $1, $2, ... set from the remaining arguments.
>
> On Windows, a list is converted to a string in the same manner regardless
> of the value of the "shell" argument. Specifying shell=True causes the
> command string to be executed via "cmd /c ...". This allows the "program"
> to be a script, whereas shell=False requires the program to be a binary
> executable.
>
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if you can work interactively, save yourself the headache and just use
Ipython:
brucewa...@broo:~$ ipython
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:43:55)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 0.10 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
In [1]: alias
Total number of aliases: 15
Out[1]:
[('cat', 'cat'),
('clear', 'clear'),
('less', 'less'),
('mkdir', 'mkdir'),
('rmdir', 'rmdir'),
('cp', 'cp -i'),
('lc', 'ls -F -o --color'),
('ldir', 'ls -F -o --color %l | grep /$'),
('lf', 'ls -F -o --color %l | grep ^-'),
('lk', 'ls -F -o --color %l | grep ^l'),
('ll', 'ls -lF'),
('ls', 'ls -F'),
('lx', 'ls -F -o --color %l | grep ^-..x'),
('mv', 'mv -i'),
('rm', 'rm -i')]
In [2]:
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