commit 9ea629cc836682d52eb7da21900ef335a77344c8
author Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> Mon Jul 19 14:49:38 2010 +0000
committer Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> Mon Jul 19 14:49:38 2010 +0000
tree 6cdb20c6ec2aa6ade45a6562367c1e53b9a4f3d3
parent d483a1a12b5ab88cc32f140e537fc172cb0c423d

Merged revisions 82973 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/release27-maint

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  r82973 | stefan.krah | 2010-07-19 16:41:08 +0200 (Mon, 19 Jul 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #9265: Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True
  and executable specified.
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Lib/subprocess.py

diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 9b76421..57cdbe8 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -1029,6 +1029,8 @@
 
             if shell:
                 args = ["/bin/sh", "-c"] + args
+                if executable:
+                    args[0] = executable
 
             if executable is None:
                 executable = args[0]