* Titus Brown wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:47:58PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > -> On 3/22/07, Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -> > Guido van Rossum wrote: > -> > > Sure. os.fork() and the os.exec*() family can stay. But > os.spawn*(), -> > > that abomination invented by Microsoft? I also hear > no opposition -> > > against killign os.system() and os.popen() > -> > > -> > Except that 'os.system' is really easy to use and I use it rarely > enough -> > that I *always* have to RTFM for subprocess which makes you > jump through -> > a few more (albeit simple) hoops. > -> > -> So let's add subprocess.system() which takes care of the hoops (but > -> still allows you more flexibility through optional keyword > -> parameters). > > How would this differ from subprocess.call()? > > http://docs.python.org/lib/node530.html
It doesn't implement the system() spec: <http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/system.html> nd -- Winnetous Erbe: <http://pub.perlig.de/books.html#apache2> _______________________________________________ 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
