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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Moving folders with content
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:53:44 -0400
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:53:02 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 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 is rather perverse to say "run this file in this shell"
> while saying "don't use a shell" <G>).

	I may have over trimmed the quote -- the preceding comment applies
to usage on M$ Windows... (with one typo corrected)
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