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On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:31:07 +0100, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:


> difference is that shell=False requires the "executable" to actually be a
> binary executable, while shell=True allows it to be some other type of
> file (e.g. a batch file, Python script, etc).

	While it is true that "programs" that require an interpreter to be
present won't run directly, the main difference is that "shell=True"
allows for use of the built-ins -- commands like DIR, COPY, DEL...

	One can always preface the others with the interpreter program name
(granted, in the case of "BAT" files, that interpreter IS the command
shell, so it if rather perverse to say "run this file in this shell"
while saying "don't use a shell" <G>).


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