Comment 8 for bug 1520691

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Bernd Dietzel (l-ubuntuone1104) wrote :

Not only filenames, ... anything in the path like the name of a usb-stick could get a shell command.

So please to not use "shell=True" , it makes the "subprocess.Popen" command as insecure as the "os.popen" commands are.