[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Change by Guido van Rossum : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset e6690f6cd1b0c2bd5804bad30239a4070f79102c by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-13826: Clarify Popen constructor example (GH-18438) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e6690f6cd1b0c2bd5804bad30239a4070f79102c --

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 78982f94faaa05e363d15b49ec230d11a4d8bebd by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-13826: Clarify Popen constructor example (GH-18438) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/78982f94faaa05e363d15b49ec230d11a4d8bebd --

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +17820 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18446 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +17819 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18445 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 95d024d585bd3ed627437a2f0cbc783c8a014c8a by Tim D. Smith in branch 'master': bpo-13826: Clarify Popen constructor example (GH-18438) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/95d024d585bd3ed627437a2f0cbc783c8a014c8a -- nosy:

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Change by Tim Smith : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +17812 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18438 ___ Python tracker

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Changes by Berker Peksag : -- keywords: +easy stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6 -Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Changes by Chris Rebert pyb...@rebertia.com: -- nosy: +cvrebert ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13826 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13826 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

New submission from Julian Berman julian+python@grayvines.com: The example at http://docs.python.org/dev/library/subprocess.html#popen-constructor seems a bit misplaced, as it seems to suggest that one should use the shlex module. Most of the other examples in the module seem to use a

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- priority: normal - low ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13826 ___ ___

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: It is not particularly intuitive what goes in to a Popen non-shell argument list, unless you are an experienced programmer. The real purpose of the note is to convey a lot of information about how tokenization works in a short example,

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Sandro Tosi sandro.t...@gmail.com added the comment: Maybe we can add a very small example before the whole note to show just how to use Popen in simple situation, and so the shlex part below will add more details for more advanced cases. -- nosy: +sandro.tosi versions: -Python 2.6,

[issue13826] Having a shlex example in the subprocess.Popen docs is confusing

Julian Berman julian+python@grayvines.com added the comment: Sounds reasonable to me. I'll take a look at adding one unless someone manages to beat me to it. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13826