[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 324 (process module) (original) (raw)

David Ascher DavidA at ActiveState.com
Tue Aug 3 19:27:56 CEST 2004

Peter Astrand wrote:

I believe ActiveState's Trent Mick has released something along these lines. Does your proposed API match theirs?

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So, the chances of getting our modules API-compatible are very small.

I really don't want to get into a religious war about the relative benefits of the two modules (I don't know Peter's well enough to comment), but I think it would be nice for users if there weren't two modules with the same goal, different interfaces and the same name. I understand from Trent that Twisted has started to use his process.py, so having another process.py in the stdlib at some point would cause at least some users pain.

--david

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