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Author r.david.murray
Recipients brian.curtin, eric.smith, exarkun, ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, r.david.murray, shypike
Date 2010-06-19.03:09:45
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The reason that Popen doesn't do "the obvious thing" with a list and shell=True is that it is far from obvious what the correct thing is to do, especially for windows.

Thanks for the revert, exarkun.
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2010-06-19 03:09:48r.david.murraysetrecipients: + r.david.murray, gregory.p.smith, exarkun, eric.smith, ezio.melotti, brian.curtin, shypike
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