commit 8db99c899591ecfe49405334a6e21bfa46ec8ef6
author Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> Mon Jul 19 14:39:36 2010 +0000
committer Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> Mon Jul 19 14:39:36 2010 +0000
tree a9f655dfcb23c484b092e9134c58fdd353edb98a
parent 5bf0664175909eba6a0f440e2b2f8d4d227bb992

Merged revisions 82971 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r82971 | stefan.krah | 2010-07-19 16:20:53 +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 1b774bc..d19e538 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -1044,6 +1044,8 @@
 
             if shell:
                 args = ["/bin/sh", "-c"] + args
+                if executable:
+                    args[0] = executable
 
             if executable is None:
                 executable = args[0]