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| From | Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email |
| Date | 2016-01-12 19:04 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Am 12.01.16 um 18:52 schrieb Chris Angelico:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:37 AM, eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> start is a shell command. It also has a quirk that the first quoted
>> argument is the window title. Here's the correct call:
>>
>> subprocess.check_call('start "title" "%s"' % url, shell=True)
>
> Is that properly escaped to handle any arbitrary URL? I doubt it.
>
> Do you actually need shell=True? I would strongly recommend using the
> form that I used, unless it can be proven that that doesn't work.
As stated, start is not an executable on Windows, but it is a built-in
command of cmd.exe. And thus it has very quirky quotation rules. This is
unlike Linux, where "xdg-open" is a shell script, and OSX, where "open"
is a binary executable.
Christian
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use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email jkn <jkn_gg@nicorp.f9.co.uk> - 2016-01-12 08:51 -0800
Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 04:10 +1100
Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email jkn <jkn_gg@nicorp.f9.co.uk> - 2016-01-12 09:22 -0800
Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-01-12 11:37 -0600
Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 04:52 +1100
Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-01-12 19:04 +0100
Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-01-12 13:12 -0600
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