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354354 arguments for additional differences from the default behavior. Unless
355355 otherwise stated, it is recommended to pass *args * as a sequence.
356356
357+ An example of passing some arguments to an external program
358+ as a sequence is::
359+
360+ Popen(["/usr/bin/git", "commit", "-m", "Fixes a bug."])
361+
357362 On POSIX, if *args * is a string, the string is interpreted as the name or
358363 path of the program to execute. However, this can only be done if not
359364 passing arguments to the program.
360365
361366 .. note ::
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363- :meth: `shlex.split ` can be useful when determining the correct
364- tokenization for *args *, especially in complex cases::
368+ It may not be obvious how to break a shell command into a sequence of arguments,
369+ especially in complex cases. :meth: `shlex.split ` can illustrate how to
370+ determine the correct tokenization for *args *::
365371
366372 >>> import shlex, subprocess
367373 >>> command_line = input()
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