Popen3-style os.execl?

[Chris Green]

Hey folks,

I'm whipping up a quick CGI to wrap a command line app and I was a bit
suprised to not find a execl-like Popen3 style object. I don't want
to bother with the shell interpreting metacharaters by constructing a
command line.

Basically, I want something that acts just like Popen3 but allows me
to specify cmd as a path + args. Does something like this exist in
the standard library? If not, it sounds like a good candidate...

Cheers,
Chris
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[Donn Cave]

In article <m2************@catbert.dok.org>, Chris Green <cm*@dok.org>
wrote:

Hey folks,

I'm whipping up a quick CGI to wrap a command line app and I was a bit
suprised to not find a execl-like Popen3 style object. I don't want
to bother with the shell interpreting metacharaters by constructing a
command line.

Basically, I want something that acts just like Popen3 but allows me
to specify cmd as a path + args. Does something like this exist in
the standard library? If not, it sounds like a good candidate...

Did you try it? I think of Popen3 as something that
acts just like you describe, but also accepts a command
line. Not the best API, maybe.

Donn Cave, do**@u.washington.edu

[Michael Hudson]

Chris Green <cm*@dok.org> writes:

Hey folks,

I'm whipping up a quick CGI to wrap a command line app and I was a bit
suprised to not find a execl-like Popen3 style object. I don't want
to bother with the shell interpreting metacharaters by constructing a
command line.

Basically, I want something that acts just like Popen3 but allows me
to specify cmd as a path + args. Does something like this exist in
the standard library? If not, it sounds like a good candidate...

Um. Can't you pass a list to the Popen3 constructor?

Cheers,
mwh

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[Chris Green]

Michael Hudson <mw*@python.net> writes:

Um. Can't you pass a list to the Popen3 constructor?

Well, by golly ya can. Since cmd is only ever one argument in the
docs, I've never known that you could do this.
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[Michael Hudson]

Chris Green <cm*@dok.org> writes:

Michael Hudson <mw*@python.net> writes:

Um. Can't you pass a list to the Popen3 constructor?

Well, by golly ya can. Since cmd is only ever one argument in the
docs, I've never known that you could do this.

Ah, uh, right: this isn't documented. I'm not sure why... as noted,
it doesn't work on Windows, but then if you were talking about execl,
you presumably aren't that concerned.

Cheers,
mwh

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