New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com>: While fixing #8391, I realized that subprocess doesn't support bytes program name if it's not an absolute path: ------- $ ./python >>> import subprocess >>> subprocess.call([b'echo']) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/SHARE/SVN/py3k/Lib/subprocess.py", line 449, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "/home/SHARE/SVN/py3k/Lib/subprocess.py", line 681, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "/home/SHARE/SVN/py3k/Lib/subprocess.py", line 1116, in _execute_child for exe in executable_list) File "/home/SHARE/SVN/py3k/Lib/subprocess.py", line 1115, in <genexpr> executable_list = tuple(fs_encode(exe) File "/home/SHARE/SVN/py3k/Lib/subprocess.py", line 1114, in <genexpr> for dir in path_list) File "/home/SHARE/SVN/py3k/Lib/posixpath.py", line 75, in join if b.startswith(sep): TypeError: expected an object with the buffer interface [62826 refs] -------
I'm working on a patch. ---------- components: Library (Lib), Unicode messages: 104059 nosy: haypo severity: normal status: open title: subprocess: support bytes program name versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8513> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com