> IMO os.popen() is wrong here. Should os.popen go away entirely?
Apparently, it does two things: a) redefine close to block until the child process terminated, and b) wrap stdout/stdout with a TextIOWrapper If there is an actual need to specify an encoding when communicating with the subprocess, I'd rather make that parameter to Popen itself. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com