Zack Weinberg added the comment: > I think that it will be better not introduce a new argument, but reuse stdin. > Just allow io.BytesIO (or perhaps even any file object) be specified as stdin.
If we were designing from scratch I might agree, but we aren't. Principle of least astonishment says that the API here should match `subprocess.communicate`, and that has separate `stdin=FILE` and `input=STRING` arguments. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16624> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
