On 24Oct2018 0934, Calvin Spealman wrote:
In the spirit of "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." this makes perfect sense.
To do what? There is one obvious way to run a system command, and one obvious way to manage subprocesses. There are also many non-obvious ways to run system commands, and many non-obvious ways to manage subprocesses.
The distinction between "your own machine and other peoples machines" is not always clear, nor planned for, nor understood by developers to be an important distinction to make up-front. So the encouragement should be clear.
Agreed. One good heuristic is whether you're putting the system command in a function or not, since functions are explicitly designing for reuse while just using it in a script is not.
Simply put, there is no valid use case for os.system over subprocess by remaining it must be considered redundant.
You have not shown this. Posting quotes followed by an unrelated conclusion isn't a very compelling form of argument :)
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