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Which explanation would sound strongest in an interview when discussing safe subprocess calls?

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Call subprocesses with explicit argument lists and clear error handling instead of shell-interpolated strings. Candidates who mention argument lists and boundaries sound safer to trust.Delay clarity until production traffic reveals the edge case and then patch it under pressure.Keep safe subprocess calls implicit so the script stays short and hope the next engineer infers the rule.Solve the symptom with comments only and avoid changing the code shape around safe subprocess calls.

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A. Call subprocesses with explicit argument lists and clear error handling instead of shell-interpolated strings. Candidates who mention argument lists and boundaries sound safer to trust.

Why

Interviewers usually care less about keywords than about whether you can explain why the code is shaped the way it is.

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