Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with

surrogates.

Misc/NEWS

@@ -312,6 +312,9 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8412: os.system() now accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
+  surrogates.
+
 - Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
   Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
 

Modules/posixmodule.c

@@ -2688,18 +2688,23 @@ posix_system(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 	wchar_t *command;
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "u:system", &command))
 		return NULL;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	sts = _wsystem(command);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
 #else
+	PyObject *command_obj;
 	char *command;
-	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s:system", &command))
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O&:system",
+	                      PyUnicode_FSConverter, &command_obj))
 		return NULL;
-#endif
+
+	command = bytes2str(command_obj, 1);
 	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
-#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
-	sts = _wsystem(command);
-#else
 	sts = system(command);
-#endif
 	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+	release_bytes(command_obj);
+#endif
 	return PyLong_FromLong(sts);
 }
 #endif