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Hi

I wonder if the additional new line charachter at the end of the standard o=
utput capture is on purpose with 'subprocess.check_output'?

>>> subprocess.check_output([ 'cygpath'=2C 'C:\\' ])
'/cygdrive/c\n'

If I do the same from the shell there is no extra new line (which is correc=
t I believe):

$ x=3D$(cygpath C:\\)=3B echo "_${x}_"
_/cygdrive/c_

Surely I have a workaround. I was more interested whether it was a design f=
law.

Cheers
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