The non-obvious thing with 8972 is what to do with an argument list when the &#39;shell&#39; option is True, isn&#39;t it? I can&#39;t see how it overlaps with my case. My suggestion is a flag to enable argument protection in Popen, either just for arguments passed as a list (i.e., like how it&#39;s done in 2.6) or maybe also for the case where you pass the command as a string (I haven&#39;t considered that case yet, since it&#39;s not directly interesting to me).<div>
<br></div><div>I can actually see that exarkun suggests something along the same lines in 8972: &#39;implement the cmd.exe quoting rules in a different function from the MS C runtime rules&#39;.<div><br></div><div>Arve<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:19 PM, R. David Murray <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:report@bugs.python.org">report@bugs.python.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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R. David Murray &lt;<a href="mailto:rdmurray@bitdance.com">rdmurray@bitdance.com</a>&gt; added the comment:<br>
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</div>As noted in issue 8972, it&#39;s not clear what such a mode should actually do.  If you have a concrete proposal you could make it, probably on the python-ideas mailing list.  But I&#39;m personally not in favor of it; I prefer maintaining as much API consistency between windows and linux as we reasonably can.<br>

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