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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Thu Mar 22 22:50:36 CET 2007


"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:

Sure. os.fork() and the os.exec*() family can stay. But os.spawn*(), that abomination invented by Microsoft? I also hear no opposition against killign os.system() and os.popen().

As long as os.system migrates to subprocess.system (as you originally suggested), I'm +1 with everything mentioned in this thread.



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