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On 10/27/2011 6:36 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 27/10/2011 11:27, Propad wrote:
>> the suggestion to add the optional second parameter fixed the problem,
>> spawnl now works on the Win 7 computer I'm responsible for (with
>> Python 2.2). So the suggested cause seems to be right.
>
> FWIW, although it's not obvious, the args parameter to spawnl
> is intended to become the sys.args (in Python terms) of the
> newly-spawned process. Which is why the first element is expected
> to be the name of the process. It took me some time to realise
> this myself :)
>
> Anyway, glad we could be of help.

Can we make this fix automatic for Win7 to fix #8036?

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy