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Reformat docstrings.

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Standardize whitespace in function calls.
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Greg Ward 2000-09-26 02:00:51 +00:00
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Lib/distutils/spawn.py
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@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
Provides the 'spawn()' function, a front-end to various platform-
specific functions for launching another program in a sub-process.
Also provides the 'find_executable()' to search the path for a given
executable name. """
executable name.
"""
# created 1999/07/24, Greg Ward
@ -20,19 +21,19 @@ def spawn (cmd,
"""Run another program, specified as a command list 'cmd', in a new
process. 'cmd' is just the argument list for the new process, ie.
cmd[0] is the program to run and cmd[1:] are the rest of its
arguments. There is no way to run a program with a name different
from that of its executable.
cmd[0] is the program to run and cmd[1:] are the rest of its arguments.
There is no way to run a program with a name different from that of its
executable.
If 'search_path' is true (the default), the system's executable
search path will be used to find the program; otherwise, cmd[0] must
be the exact path to the executable. If 'verbose' is true, a
one-line summary of the command will be printed before it is run.
If 'dry_run' is true, the command will not actually be run.
Raise DistutilsExecError if running the program fails in any way;
just return on success."""
If 'search_path' is true (the default), the system's executable search
path will be used to find the program; otherwise, cmd[0] must be the
exact path to the executable. If 'verbose' is true, a one-line summary
of the command will be printed before it is run. If 'dry_run' is true,
the command will not actually be run.
Raise DistutilsExecError if running the program fails in any way; just
return on success.
"""
if os.name == 'posix':
_spawn_posix(cmd, search_path, verbose, dry_run)
elif os.name == 'nt':
@ -45,8 +46,10 @@ def spawn (cmd,
def _nt_quote_args (args):
"""Obscure quoting command line arguments on NT.
Simply quote every argument which contains blanks."""
"""Quote command-line arguments for DOS/Windows conventions: just
wraps every argument which contains blanks in double quotes, and
returns a new argument list.
"""
# XXX this doesn't seem very robust to me -- but if the Windows guys
# say it'll work, I guess I'll have to accept it. (What if an arg