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Author eryksun
Recipients Bernát Gábor, eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2017-07-20.23:26:29
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subprocess.Popen calls WinAPI CreateProcess, which can execute PE/COFF executables and .BAT/.CMD batch scripts. It doesn't know anything about .LNK shell shortcuts. If CreateProcess fails, a Windows shell (e.g. CMD or PowerShell) tries ShellExecuteEx, which knows how to open a .LNK file. You can use shell=True for this in Python.

Directly supporting ShellExecuteEx would be a major enhancement. It would probably require a new keyword-only parameter, or at least a sentinel value for the existing `shell` parameter.
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2017-07-20 23:26:29eryksunsetrecipients: + eryksun, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower, Bernát Gábor
2017-07-20 23:26:29eryksunsetmessageid: <1500593189.4.0.785548275401.issue30979@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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