On some platforms, the gcloud command is provided by a binary named something other than gcloud (e.g. gcloud.com on Windows).
For those platforms, using subprocess to run the command without the shell=True argument will fail because there is no file named gcloud.
Instead, we need to pass in the shell=True argument so that the call to subprocess first resolves which binary corresponds to the gcloud command and then runs that binary.
On some platforms, the
gcloudcommand is provided by a binary named something other thangcloud(e.g.gcloud.comon Windows).For those platforms, using subprocess to run the command without the
shell=Trueargument will fail because there is no file namedgcloud.Instead, we need to pass in the
shell=Trueargument so that the call to subprocess first resolves which binary corresponds to thegcloudcommand and then runs that binary.