[Python-Dev] os.spawnv[e] and related constants (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com (Skip Montanaro)
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:13:49 -0500

The spawnv and spawnve functions in the os module look useful, but the lib manual documentation is rather sparse about their semantics, referring the reader to the VC++ Runtime Library for more info. Perhaps this is poetic justice for us Unix bigots (since many people often complain that the Python library and docs are too Unix-centric), but it would be useful to know what the return values (if any) of these functions are and what the related P_* constants mean. I can guess about P_WAIT and P_NOWAIT, but the meanings of the others aren't obvious to a person without Windows experience.

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