Hi Chris, thanks for your reply. Chris Rebert a écrit : > Quoting http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html , emphasis mine: > """ > On Unix, with shell=True: [...] If args is a sequence, ***the first > item*** specifies the command string, and any additional items will be > treated as additional arguments ***to the shell itself***. > """
Yes, I read that, that's why I'd like to avoid shell=True, but if I do shall=False subprocess.Popen is no longer able to catch the standard inputs & outputs of pg_dump (but it does on other commands that has a prompt, e.g. 'passwd') That's the problem :-/ Regards, Camille. -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly under Creative Commons! https://yooook.net/r/lp1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list