The non-obvious thing with 8972 is what to do with an argument list when the
'shell' option is True, isn't it? I can'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's done in 2.6) or maybe
also for the case where you pass the command as a string (I haven't
considered that case yet, since it's not directly interesting to me).

I can actually see that exarkun suggests something along the same lines in
8972: 'implement the cmd.exe quoting rules in a different function from the
MS C runtime rules'.

Arve

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:19 PM, R. David Murray <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment:
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> As noted in issue 8972, it'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'm personally not in favor of it; I prefer
> maintaining as much API consistency between windows and linux as we
> reasonably can.
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