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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -356,14 +356,20 @@ functions.
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arguments for additional differences from the default behavior. Unless
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otherwise stated, it is recommended to pass *args * as a sequence.
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+ An example of passing some arguments to an external program
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+ as a sequence is::
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+ Popen(["/usr/bin/git", "commit", "-m", "Fixes a bug."])
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On POSIX, if *args * is a string, the string is interpreted as the name or
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path of the program to execute. However, this can only be done if not
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passing arguments to the program.
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.. note ::
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- :meth: `shlex.split ` can be useful when determining the correct
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- tokenization for *args *, especially in complex cases::
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+ It may not be obvious how to break a shell command into a sequence of arguments,
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+ especially in complex cases. :meth: `shlex.split ` can illustrate how to
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+ determine the correct tokenization for *args *::
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>>> import shlex, subprocess
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>>> command_line = input()
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