[Python-Dev] Why spawnvp not implemented on Windows? (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Oct 13 13:26:46 CEST 2006

Alexey Borzenkov wrote:

any reason you cannot just use the "subprocess" module instead, like everyone else? Oh! Wow! I just simply didn't know of its existance (I'm pretty much new to python), and both distutils and SCons (I was looking inside them because they are major build systems and surely had to execute compilers somehow), and upon seeing that each of them invented their own method of searching path created a delusion as if inventing custom workarounds was the only way... Sorry... xx

no problem.

someone should really update the documentation to make sure that os.spawn and os.open and commands and popen2 and all the other 80%-solutions at least point to the subprocess module...

(and if the library reference had been stored in a wiki, I'd fixed that before any- one else even got this mail...)

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