Richard Oudkerk added the comment: Firstly, list2cmdline() takes a list as its argument, not a string:
>>> import subprocess >>> print subprocess.list2cmdline([r'\"1|2\"']) \\\"1|2\\\" But the problem with passing arguments to a batch file is that cmd.exe parses arguments differently from how normal executables do. In particular, "|" is treated specially and "^" is used as an escape character. If you define test.bat as @echo off echo "%1" then subprocess.call(['test.bat', '1^|2']) prints "1|2" as expected. This is a duplicate of http://bugs.python.org/issue1300. ---------- nosy: +sbt resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18649> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
