[Python-Dev] 'commands' module on Win32 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Aug 13 16:30:42 CEST 2004

Bug #1008275 refers to attempting to run commands.getstatusoutput() on win32, and the fact that it breaks.

Hm... That module's functionality is such a small improvement over raw os.popen, it would never have been admitted into the standard library these days.

I'd rather see this added as a higher-level API to one of the process management modules that are floating around, one of which will eventually land in the library, at which point we can deprecate commands.py.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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