Passing Variables to Subprocess.Popen

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Drop shell=True. The arguments to Popen() are treated differently on Unix if shell=True:

import sys
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

# populate list of arguments
args = ["mytool.py"]
for opt, optname in zip("-a -x -p".split(), "address port pass".split()):
    args.extend([opt, str(servers[server][optname])])
args.extend("some additional command".split())

# run script
p = Popen([sys.executable or 'python'] + args, stdout=PIPE)
# use p.stdout here...
p.stdout.close()
p.wait()

Note that passing shell=True for commands with external input is a security hazard, as described by a warning in the docs.

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