Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Clodoaldo Pinto Neto wrote: > > > But I still don't understand what is happening. The manual says that > > when shell=True the executable argument specifies which shell to use: > > no, it says that when shell=True, it runs the command "through" the > default shell. that is, it hands it over to the shell for execution, > pretty much as if you'd typed it in yourself.
"If shell=True, the executable argument specifies which shell to use." Taken from 6.8.1 v2.4: "The executable argument specifies the program to execute. It is very seldom needed: Usually, the program to execute is defined by the args argument. If shell=True, the executable argument specifies which shell to use. On Unix, the default shell is /bin/sh. On Windows, the default shell is specified by the COMSPEC environment variable." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
