commit 2699c9d24810196a07e0577215ec3beb7ecfb55b
author Jesus Cea <jcea@jcea.es> Fri Oct 05 05:18:47 2012 +0200
committer Jesus Cea <jcea@jcea.es> Fri Oct 05 05:18:47 2012 +0200
tree a03779a576611c200035d55215c7bddd82397f23
parent 69e7c9b1fd616c4c7c667e356be478db0df1dabf

#16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file. Fix original patch

Lib/platform.py

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 10b04bd..20b9175 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -1045,8 +1045,8 @@
         return default
     target = _follow_symlinks(target)
     try:
-        proc = subprocess.Popen(['file', '-b', '--', target],
-                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(['file', target],
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
 
     except (AttributeError,os.error):
         return default