[Python-Dev] r87010 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/subprocess.rst Lib/subprocess.py Lib/test/test_subprocess.py (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Sun Dec 5 20:21:32 CET 2010


On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:08:43 -0800 "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote: > Sleeping on the issue some more and pondering it... > > Is there any good reason not to just make the closefds default change in > 3.2 today? No warning (since they're never seen by most people anyways). > Document it in Misc/NEWS and whatsnew.rst.

Yes, it will break many scripts under Windows. That's the core of the issue, really. I agree under Unix it makes sense to change the default.

Sorry, yes, I was ignoring windows in the above statement. I only want the change in default on unix, windows has different needs.

Regards Antoine.


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