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portable way to tell what Popen will call

I need a portable way to tell what subprocess.Pope n will call.

For instance on unix systems, Popen will work for files flagged with the
executable bit, whereas on windows Popen will work on files ending the in
..exe extension (and I don't think anything else). Is there a portable way
to check what Popen will work on without actually execute it? Do I have to
write a bunch of platform specific code here?

Thanks,
Brendan
Jun 27 '08 #1
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Brendan Miller <ca******@catph ive.netwrites:
For instance on unix systems, Popen will work for files flagged with
the executable bit, whereas on windows Popen will work on files
ending the in .exe extension (and I don't think anything else). Is
there a portable way
Actually, if you pass the use_shell = 1 argument to Popen, it will
launch the process using a shell - that is, what you expect to work in
a shell (and consequently os.system()) will work.
to check what Popen will work on without actually execute it? Do I
have to write a bunch of platform specific code here?
Unfortunately, you'll probably need to write platform specific kludges
for this.
Jun 27 '08 #2

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