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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Mar 23 02:44:26 CET 2007


Titus Brown wrote:

I could add in a 'system'-alike call easily enough; that was suggested. But I think

returncode = subprocess.call("program") is pretty simple, isn't it?

Something to keep in mind is that system() doesn't directly launch a process running the command, it uses a shell. So it's not just simple sugar for some subprocess.* call.

-- Greg



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