[Python-Dev] deprecate commands.getstatus() (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Mar 22 22:37:48 CET 2007

Sure. os.fork() and the os.exec*() family can stay. But os.spawn*(), that abomination invented by Microsoft?

Right, I personally would not miss it. It's also not a system call, but a library function on both Windows and Unix (the equivalent of exposing fork would be to expose CreateProcessEx - something that I think Python should do out of the box, and not just when PythonWin is installed - but you can now get it through ctypes).

I also hear no opposition against killign os.system() and os.popen().

Both are library functions; I can implement them in Python on top of what is there (plus popen is based on stdio, which we declared evil). So yes, the can go.

Regards, Martin

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