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Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments?

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments?
Date 2015-12-15 10:03 -0500
Organization IISS Elusive Unicorn
Message-ID <mailman.22.1450191839.22044.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
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On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:25:50 +0000 (UTC), Ulli Horlacher
<framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> declaimed the following:

>(My first posting seems to got lost)
>
>I want to create a zip file within a Python 2.7 program on windows.
>
>My code:
>
>  cmd = ['7za.exe','a','-tzip',archive] + files
>  status = subprocess.call(cmd)
>
	My first thought would be...

	WHY spawn an OS dependent subprocess...

	Python has a zipfile library that is portable between OS. Along with
libraries for gzip, bzip2, and tarfiles...

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subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 14:25 +0000
  Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-15 10:03 -0500
    Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 17:57 +0000
      Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-15 21:20 -0500
    Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-16 12:44 +0000
      Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-12-16 06:55 -0800
  Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 15:05 +0000
  Re: subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 16:08 +0100

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