[Python-Dev] marking os.system() as deprecated in the docs (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jul 27 08:35:45 CEST 2010
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
Unless, it's as simple as replacing "os.system(x)" with "subprocess.system(x)", I'm against this removal of a handy shorthand.
Also, seeing as it's a well-known C library facility, and Python likes to provide thin wrappers around the C library wherever reasonable, its lack would seem a bit odd.
-- Greg
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