You can always set shell=True and pass in an entire command line as a string, but… don’t do that. It seems really nice until the first time you get the shell escaping wrong, and then it’s something you tend never to do again.

For example,

  subprocess.run(“rm -rf ~/ some file”, shell=True)

and

  subprocess.run([“rm”, “-rf”,  “~/ some file”])

have significant different behavior.