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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 17:30:37 CET 2007

On 3/23/07, Hrvoje Nikšić <hrvoje.niksic at avl.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:38 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Sounds good to me. In 3.0 we should probably not have os.popen*(), nor > the popen2 module at all, and do everything via the subprocess module. > I wonder if we should even get rid of os.system(); then there should > be a subprocess.system() instead. And do we even need os.fork(), > os.exec*(), os.spawn*()?

Please don't remove os.fork and os.exec*. Some people need to fine-tune process creation and don't need portability to non-Unix OS'es. For them, the functions that call the underlying system API and little or nothing else are a god-send.

Right, but if you're really using only Posix, you can simply use posix.fork and posix.exec* and then you're even being explicit about the fact.

STeVe

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