In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2005-06-10, Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>py> file_list = os.popen("ls").read()
> >>
> >>Stores the output of ls into file_list.
> >>
> > These commands invoke shell indeed.
>
> Under Unix, popen will not invoke a shell if it's passed a
> sequence rather than a single string.
I suspect you're thinking of the popen2 functions.
On UNIX, os.popen is posix.popen, is a simple wrapper
around the C library popen. It always invokes the
shell.
The no-shell alternatives are spawnv (instead of
system) and the popen2 family (given a sequence
of strings.)
Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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