Though from the bug report, the fix did not make it into Python 2.7 ... still being used some places today — by other people, not me (: There is a backport fix

Though from the bug report, the fix did not make it into Python 2.7 ... still being used some places today — by other people, not me (: There is a backport fixed version though: https://code.google.com/archive/p/python-subprocess32/ https://code.google.com/archive/p/python-subprocess32/