[issue11095] subprocess popen broken for bytes and backslash

Eric Smith added the comment: 1: subprocess.call is documented as taking a string, not bytes. If you think it should also take bytes, I suggest opening a separate bug as a feature request. 2: You're running into both Python and the shell escaping. If you have an odd number of backslashes, the

[issue11095] subprocess popen broken for bytes and backslash

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[issue11095] subprocess popen broken for bytes and backslash

New submission from kai zhu : noticed when trying to call grep w/ backslashes in regexp, in shell mode. same behavior on python2.5 & python3.2 in shell mode: 1. bytes is broken 2. 1st character after backslash is always silently truncated (with exception of '\\') $ python3.2 Python 3.2rc1+ (py