Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: STINNER Victor wrote: > > New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com>: > > Extract of the documentation: > ---- > 15.14.3.1. Win95/98 specific > > platform.popen(cmd, mode='r', bufsize=None) > > Portable popen() interface. Find a working popen implementation preferring > win32pipe.popen(). On Windows NT, win32pipe.popen() should work; on Windows > 9x it hangs due to bugs in the MS C library. > ---- > > Python 3 doesn't support Windows 9x/Me anymore: we should deprecate it, or > maybe directly remove it. > > subprocess.Popen() is a better alternative: it supports Unicode, it handles > EINTR, etc.
Does it prevent a shell window from opening on Windows ? Does subprocess.Popen() use the system's PATH for finding the executable ? Since it's a documented API, we could replace it with an implementation that uses subprocess.Popen(), but not remove it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11377> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
