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Author chris.jerdonek
Recipients asvetlov, chris.jerdonek, christian.heimes, ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, lyapun, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, tim.golden
Date 2012-11-03.16:26:55
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Message-id <1351960015.29.0.213353377043.issue16353@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Also, what reason to get shell name from COMSPEC? What should we do if COMSPEC points to some another shell, not cmd.exe?

FWIW, the subprocess module does this (with surrounding code linked after):

comspec = os.environ.get("COMSPEC", "cmd.exe")

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/ed091424f230/Lib/subprocess.py#l1060
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2012-11-03 16:26:55chris.jerdoneksetrecipients: + chris.jerdonek, gregory.p.smith, pitrou, christian.heimes, tim.golden, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, asvetlov, neologix, lyapun
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