[Python-Dev] FW: Fixing os.popen on Win32 => is the win32pipe stuff going to be adopted? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 08 Mar 2000 07:10:53 -0500

Tim Peters wrote: > > Mike has a darned good point here. Anyone have a darned good answer ? > Subject: Fixing os.popen on Win32 => is the win32pipe stuff going to be > adopted? > > Just reading one more post (and a FAQ) on the win32 pipe breakage (sewage > all over the hard-disk, traffic rerouted through the bit-bucket, you aren't > getting to work anytime soon Mrs. Programmer) and wondering why we have a > FAQ instead of having the win32pipe stuff rolled into the os module to fix > it. Is there some incompatibility? Is there a licensing problem?

MAL:

I'd suggest moving the popen from the C modules into os.py as Python API and then applying all necessary magic to either use the win32pipe implementation (if available) or the native C one from the posix module in os.py.

Unless, of course, the win32 stuff (or some of it) makes it into the core.

No concrete plans -- except that I think the registry access is supposed to go in. Haven't seen the code on patches@python.org yet though.

I'm mostly interested in this for my platform.py module... BTW, is there any interest of moving it into the core ?

"it" == platform.py? Little interest from me personally; I suppose it could go in Tools/scripts/...

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