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

Jason Lunz lunz at falooley.org
Sat Oct 9 15:28:29 CEST 2004

astrand at lysator.liu.se said:

I'd prefer not to rename the call() function. The name is short and simple, and the function is very much used.

That's understandable. Though if people are going to go through the pain of changing it, it's better that it happen before it becomes a standard part of python.

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.

How recently was callv added? I'd prefer not to have a callv at all than to have a call/callv pair that don't map naturally to execl/execv.

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

I really don't want to do this. I can tell already I'll be forever forgetting which one I need, and probably anyone else with C/unix experience will be in the same boat. It's the kind of irritant I'd like to wipe out now while there's still the opportunity.

Jason

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