diff -r 000000000000 -r ae805ac0140d python-2.5.2/win32/Lib/test/test_popen.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/python-2.5.2/win32/Lib/test/test_popen.py	Fri Apr 03 17:19:34 2009 +0100
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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+"""Basic tests for os.popen()
+
+  Particularly useful for platforms that fake popen.
+"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+from test.test_support import TestSkipped, reap_children
+from os import popen
+
+# Test that command-lines get down as we expect.
+# To do this we execute:
+#    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' % (python, cmdline)
+    data = popen(cmd).read()
+    got = eval(data)[1:] # strip off argv[0]
+    if got != expected:
+        print "Error in popen commandline handling."
+        print " executed '%s', expected '%r', but got '%r'" \
+                                                    % (cmdline, expected, got)
+
+def _test_commandline():
+    _do_test_commandline("foo bar", ["foo", "bar"])
+    _do_test_commandline('foo "spam and eggs" "silly walk"', ["foo", "spam and eggs", "silly walk"])
+    _do_test_commandline('foo "a \\"quoted\\" arg" bar', ["foo", 'a "quoted" arg', "bar"])
+    print "popen seemed to process the command-line correctly"
+
+def main():
+    print "Test popen:"
+    _test_commandline()
+    reap_children()
+
+main()