On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 06/11/2014 07:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> ISTM what you want is not shell=True, but a separate function that >>> follows the system policy for translating a command name into a >>> path-to-binary. That's something that, AFAIK, doesn't currently exist >>> in the Python 2 stdlib, but Python 3 has shutil.which(). If there's a >>> PyPI backport of that for Py2, you should be able to use that to >>> figure out the command name, and then avoid shell=False. >> >> >> Huh. Next time, Chris, search the web before you post. Via a >> StackOverflow post, learned about distutils.spawn.find_executable(). > > > --> import sys > --> sys.executable > '/usr/bin/python'
For finding the Python executable, yes, but the discussion and example are about a 2.x version of shutil.which _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
