Ronald Oussoren wrote: Using subprocess is much better because you don't have to worry about quoting for the shell. Os.popen and os.system should basically be deprecated, but that will probably not happen anytime soon because they are used a lot in existing code. >
I use os.popen because it supports non-blocking output: subprocess does not, at least not without some additional hacks. I'm glad it will still be around for a while. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig