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Thu Jun 12 04:43:49 CEST 2014 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-June/135041.html

On 06/11/2014 07:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ISTM what you want is not shell=True, but a separate function that
>> follows the system policy for translating a command name into a
>> path-to-binary. That's something that, AFAIK, doesn't currently exist
>> in the Python 2 stdlib, but Python 3 has shutil.which(). If there's a
>> PyPI backport of that for Py2, you should be able to use that to
>> figure out the command name, and then avoid shell=False.
>
> Huh. Next time, Chris, search the web before you post. Via a
> StackOverflow post, learned about distutils.spawn.find_executable().

--> import sys
--> sys.executable
'/usr/bin/python'

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