On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:57:56PM -0300, Facundo Batista wrote: > > - Why can't I write "ls -l", instead of ["ls", "-l"] (people ends > writing "ls -l".split())
That's the best thing about subprocess. Whenever I've used APIs that accept a single string instead of list of arguments, I've quickly descended into quoting hell. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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