On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 10:45 AM, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 27/10/2016 23:31, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> When >> you exec to a process, you provide multiple arguments, not a single >> combined string. > > > Really, there could be dozens of arguments? Windows' CreateProcess() (if > that's the same thing) has ten of which one is the command-line as a single > string, while C's system() just has one.
system() passes its argument through to the shell for parsing. In the same way, Python's Popen constructor can either take a list of strings, or a single string. > This might just be one of those Unixisms that doesn't apply on all > platforms. Or maybe the single-string form is a Windowsism that doesn't apply on any other platforms. Let me go dig up my OS/2 Assembly Language Programming Reference... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
