How do I execute a complex shell find command from Python?

Question

I'm trying to execute a complex shell command from inside of python. The naive attempt:

subprocess.call(["find", ".", "-exec touch {} \;"], cwd=".")

is failing. How do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

subprocess.call(["find", ".", "-exec", "touch", "{}", ";"])

cwd="." Is not needed as it is the default.