[Python-Dev] PEP 324: popen5 - New POSIX process module (original) (raw)

Barry Scott barry at barrys-emacs.org
Sun Jan 4 10:16:18 EST 2004


At 04-01-2004 00:14, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

With popen5, you can do it without using the shell. Why is that a good thing?

Because using the shell on windows is causing a DOS box window to appear for every popen2/3/4 use in a windowed python program on Windows.

Barry



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