[Python-Dev] 2.0 Release Plans (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:30:23 -0400

[/F, on "add os.popen2 support for Unix"]

to reduce my load somewhat, maybe someone who does Python 2.0 development on a Unix box could produce that patch?

Sounds like a more than reasonable idea to me; heck, AFAIK, until you mentioned you thought it was on your plate, we didn't think it was on anyone's plate. It simply "came up" on its own at the PythonLabs mtg yesterday (which I misidentified as "Monday" in an earlier post).

Can we get a volunteer here? Here's /F's explanation:

anyway, fixing this is pretty straightforward:

1) move the class (etc) from popen2.py to os.py 2) modify the "if hasattr" stuff; change # popen2.py if hasattr(os, "popen2"): def popen2(...): # compatbility code, using os.popen2 else: def popen2(...): # unix implementation to # popen2.py def popen2(...): # compatibility code # os.py def popen2(...) # unix implementation, with the order of # the return values changed to (childstdin, # childstdout, childstderr)

[on \x, \u and \U]

if someone else can do the popen2 stuff, I'll take care of this one!

It's a deal as far as I'm concerned. Thanks! I'll finish the \x PEP anyway, though, as it's already in progress.

Jeremy, please update PEP 200 accordingly (after you volunteer to do the os.popen2 etc bit for Unix(tm) ).