Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
The default for Popen objects is to not use the shell, thus
no expansion. Set shell=True in the Popen call:
>>> import subprocess
>>> output = subprocess.Popen(['ls', '*'])
>>> ls: *: No such file or directory
>>> output = subprocess.Popen(
New submission from Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
When using wildcards as arguments to the processes being spawned by
Popen, it seems to interpret them as hard literals.
IE, when doing something like:
>>> import subprocess
>>> output = subprocess.Popen(['ls', '*'],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communi
