What is the subprocess.Popen max length of the args parameter?

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If you’re passing shell=False, then Cmd.exe does not come into play.

On windows, subprocess will use the CreateProcess function from Win32 API to create the new process. The documentation for this function states that the second argument (which is build by subprocess.list2cmdline) has a max length of 32,768 characters, including the Unicode terminating null character. If lpApplicationName is NULL, the module name portion of lpCommandLine is limited to MAX_PATH characters.

Given your example, I suggest providing a value for executable (args[0]) and using args for the first parameter. If my reading of the CreateProcess documentation and of the subprocess module source code is correct, this should solve your problem.

[edit: removed the args[1:] bit after getting my hands on a windows machine and testing]

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