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Author r.david.murray
Recipients docs@python, iMath, r.david.murray
Date 2017-04-16.04:19:45
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Because passing a sequence to shell=True won't work on unix.  It only works more-or-less by accident on windows, even though the current docs kind of encourage it.  Yes, I think it would be good if these sentences were clarified.

See also issue 7839.
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