Don't quote the path to Python unless the path contains an embedded space.
Quoting the path doesn't work on Win2K (cmd.exe) regardless, this is just
a hack to let the test pass again on Win2K (so long as Python isn't
installed in a path that does contain an embedded space). On Win2K it
looks like we'd also have to add a second pair of double quotes, around
the entire command line.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_popen.py b/Lib/test/test_popen.py
index 7a0ef9b..2b687ad 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_popen.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_popen.py
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@
# python -c "import sys;print sys.argv" {rest_of_commandline}
# This results in Python being spawned and printing the sys.argv list.
# We can then eval() the result of this, and see what each argv was.
+python = sys.executable
+if ' ' in python:
+ python = '"' + python + '"' # quote embedded space for cmdline
def _do_test_commandline(cmdline, expected):
- cmd = '"%s" -c "import sys;print sys.argv" %s' % (sys.executable, cmdline)
+ cmd = '%s -c "import sys;print sys.argv" %s' % (python, cmdline)
data = popen(cmd).read()
got = eval(data)[1:] # strip off argv[0]
if got != expected: