> Sure. os.fork() and the os.exec*() family can stay. But os.spawn*(), > that abomination invented by Microsoft?
Right, I personally would not miss it. It's also not a system call, but a library function on both Windows and Unix (the equivalent of exposing fork would be to expose CreateProcessEx - something that I think Python should do out of the box, and not just when PythonWin is installed - but you can now get it through ctypes). > I also hear no opposition > against killign os.system() and os.popen(). Both are library functions; I can implement them in Python on top of what is there (plus popen is based on stdio, which we declared evil). So yes, the can go. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
