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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_popen.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
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 @@ from os import popen
# 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: