New submission from Torsten Landschoff:
The documentation of CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE at
http://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE
states:
This flag is always set when Popen is created with shell=True.
This does not fit the code which does
if (_subprocess.GetVersion() >= 0x80000000 or
os.path.basename(comspec).lower() == "command.com"):
# Win9x, or using command.com on NT. We need to
creationflags |= _subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE
So the statement is only true on very old versions on Windows. I suggest to fix
the documentation (patch attached) or to remove that obsolete hack (and drop
support for Windows <= NT).
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components: Windows
files: create_new_console.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 179578
nosy: torsten
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Docs of subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE are wrong
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28674/create_new_console.diff
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