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Subject:    Re: A question about running a subprocess in deliver_maildir
From:       "Charles Cazabon" <search-web-for-address () pyropus ! ca>
Date:       2009-03-10 3:12:51
Message-ID: 20090310031251.GA21062 () pyropus ! ca
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Jim Pryor <lists+getmail@jimpryor.net> wrote:
> 
> Yes, you can use a string as the first argument to subprocess.Popen(), but
> what you can't do, on Linux at least, is supply a space-separated string
> containing both the command and parameters.

Indeed, thanks for the correction.  I'd never tried that.

> I was puzzled why the original poster was reporting success despite
> supplying a space-separated string containing both the command and a
> parameter. I was speculating that maybe Python
> behaves differently here on OSX versus Linux.

Quite possible.  OSX is buggy in a lot of areas vs. other Unices.

Charles
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