On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:20:18AM -0400, Miles wrote: > Derek Martin wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:55:54PM +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > >> but the instances of `Popen` are no actions. There's no way to > >> "execute" a `Popen` instance. > > > > Yes there is... you execute it when you instantiate the object. At > > the time of instantiation, you "open" the "P" (pipes). > > The subprocess module is also supposed to replace os.system and > os.spawn*, neither of which involve opening pipes.
Uh... it's a replacement for os.popen(), which -- guess what -- opens pipes. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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