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

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:51:49 -0500

[James C. Ahlstrom]

Well, it looks like this thread has fizzled out. But what did we decide?

Far as I could tell, nothing specific.

... I feel Tim's original complaint that popen() is a Problem still hasn't been fixed.

I was passing it on from MikeF's c.l.py posting. This isn't a new problem, of course, it just drags on year after year -- which is the heart of MikeF's gripe. People have code that does work, but for whatever reasons it never gets moved to the core. In the meantime, the Library Ref implies the broken code that is in the core does work. One or the other has to change, and it looks most likely to me that Fred will change the docs for 1.6. While not ideal, that would be a huge improvement over the status quo.

luckily-few-people-expect-windows-to-work-anyway<0.9-wink>-ly y'rs - tim