(bug) ddk deploy fails on windows 11 pro

[kukushking]

Describe the bug

ddk deploy on windows fails w/o any error message or stack trace. Ordinary cdk deploy works fine.

How to Reproduce

Deploying DDK stacks to AWS account XXXXXXXXXXX and region us-east-1...
ERROR - Failed to run `cdk deploy --all --require-approval never --output .ddk.out`. See output above.

Expected behavior

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Your project

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Environment

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OS

Windows 11 Pro

Python version

3.10.8

AWS DDK version

0.5.1

Additional context

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[malachi-constant]

Replicated, but still need some time to get back to this one. The only exception I was able to expose so far is Exception: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified.

[malachi-constant]

Python does not appear to be able to find cdk when invoking via subprocess. Popen()

>>> sys.path
['', 'D:\\Users\\hansonlu\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310\\python310.zip', 'D:\\Users\\hansonlu\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310\\DLLs', 'D:\\Users\\hansonlu\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310\\lib', 'D:\\Users\\hansonlu\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310', 'D:\\Users\\hansonlu\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310\\lib\\site-packages']
>>> subprocess.Popen("which cdk")
<Popen: returncode: None args: 'which cdk'>
>>> /d/Users/hansonlu/AppData/Roaming/npm/cdk

KeyboardInterrupt
>>> subprocess.Popen("cdk --version")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "D:\Users\hansonlu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 971, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "D:\Users\hansonlu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 1440, in _execute_child
    hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

[malachi-constant]

subprocess.Popen(...., shell=True) resolves.

This is a security issue though as well...

Issue: [B602:subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true] subprocess call with shell=True identified, security issue.

[malachi-constant]

New issue uncovered after adding the above

 Exception: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2728' in position 21: