Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: Everyone missed my other argument in favour of alternate constructor methods: fixing the currently wrong default arguments.
There is no good reason to break working code when beginner confusion can be better addressed by telling them to avoid calling the Popen constructor directly in favour of newer APIs that have benefitted from years of experience with the current API. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7839> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com