[Python-Dev] 'commands' module on Win32 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Sat Aug 14 01:31:08 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Bug #1008275 refers to attempting to run commands.getstatusoutput() on win32, and the fact that it breaks.

Hm... That module's functionality is such a small improvement over raw os.popen, it would never have been admitted into the standard library these days. I'd rather see this added as a higher-level API to one of the process management modules that are floating around, one of which will eventually land in the library, at which point we can deprecate commands.py. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

OK - I'll add something along these lines to the bug report.

-- Nick Coghlan | Eugene, Oregon Email: ncoghlan at email.com | USA



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