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RE: A question about a list and subprocess.check_call()

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  RE: A question about a list and subprocess.check_call() David Aldrich <David.Aldrich@EMEA.NEC.COM> - 2015-02-17 09:32 +0000

#85735 — RE: A question about a list and subprocess.check_call()

>It's also possible to do it the other around using shlex.split. I prefer that version because 
>I can easily copy/paste the command from code to the shell, it's also more readable IMO:

> cmd = """python3 -O -c "import sys; print(sys.argv[1:])" foo bar "spam egg" """
> print(cmd)
> subprocess.check_call(shlex.split(cmd))

Thanks again for the replies to my question.  I especially like the solution of using shlex.split().
 

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