[Python-Dev] Re: Re: subprocess - updated popen5 module (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sat Oct 9 13:06:36 CEST 2004

Peter Astrand wrote:

> Am I missing something? Can these be renamed now before it gets > standardized?

I'd prefer not to rename the call() function. The name is short and simple, and the function is very much used. I'm positive to renaming the callv() function, though. One obvious name would be "calll", but that's quite ugly. How about "lcall"? Then we can keep the "callv" name for backwards compatibility.

do we need both? you could rename "callv" to "call", and let people type an extra "*" if they want to pass in a list of arguments:

subprocess.call("stty", "sane", "-F", device)
subprocess.call(*["stty", "sane", "-F", device])

or, more likely:

args = ["somecommand"]
# several lines of code to add options and parameters
# to the args list
subprocess.call(*args)

Or, we could just keep the "callv" name, and pretend that "v" stands for "variable number of arguments".

I have no problem with that...

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