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os.system() doesn't support surrogates nor bytes #52659
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| BPO | 8412 |
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| Nosy | @vstinner |
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closed_at = <Date 2010-04-16.12:48:34.445>
created_at = <Date 2010-04-16.01:10:20.582>
labels = ['library', 'expert-unicode']
title = "os.system() doesn't support surrogates nor bytes"
updated_at = <Date 2010-04-16.12:48:34.444>
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components = ['Library (Lib)', 'Unicode']
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue8412'
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vstinner commentedon Apr 16, 2010
os.system() doesn't support bytes, bytearray not str containing surrogates.
Attached patch uses PyUnicode_FSConverter, bytes2str and release_bytes in (the non-Windows version of) os.system() to support all of this. It locks the buffer because os.system() releases the GIL when calling system().
vstinner commentedon Apr 16, 2010
See also bpo-8391 (os.execvpe env) and bpo-8393 (subprocess cwd).
vstinner commentedon Apr 16, 2010
Commited to py3k as r80105. Let see if buildbots are happy or not :-)
vstinner commentedon Apr 16, 2010
The buildbots look happy: backported to 3.1 as r80110.