> Does a modern windows installation actually even *work* if you change > COMSPEC to command.com instead of cmd.exe? And why would anyone ever > do that? Hey, I have a good idea: python can just ignore COMSPEC and > always run cmd.exe. Then you can delete w9xpopen, hooray.
We have a process for that: in version 3.x, we deprecate the feature, and in version 3.x+1, we drop support for it. Since deprecation missed Python 3.2, we can only deprecate in 3.3, and drop in 3.4. As for "always run cmd.exe": we can't, as it's not us who runs cmd.exe, but the CRT (in the popen library function). 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
