From d89c25afc11f577706ca3da24290338587aafc9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Spura <thomas.spura@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 11:01:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] backend_ps: fix non-ascii in path similar to #7715

---
 lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
index 5da564d086f9..702c7bf63402 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ def gs_version(self):
             pass
 
         from matplotlib.compat.subprocess import Popen, PIPE
-        s = Popen(self.gs_exe + " --version",
-                     shell=True, stdout=PIPE)
+        s = Popen([str(self.gs_exe), " --version"], stdout=PIPE)
         pipe, stderr = s.communicate()
         if six.PY3:
             ver = pipe.decode('ascii')