New submission from krawyoti <krawy...@yahoo.com>: The documentation in Python 2.6 claims os.popen is deprecated [1]. This is probably a false claim. I think that at some point os.popen got confused with os.popen2, os.popen3, os.popen4 and the popen2 module, all of which are correctly deprecated.
I bring three forward three pieces of evidence that os.popen is *not* deprecated: i) In Python 3.1, unlike the others, os.popen is still present and is not even deprecated. [2] ii) Unlike the others, using os.popen does not raise a DeprecationWarning; iii) Unlike the others, its implementation is lifted straight from the posix module. -- [1] http://docs.python.org/2.6/library/os.html#os.popen [2] http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/os.html#os.plock ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 90532 nosy: georg.brandl, krawyoti severity: normal status: open title: os.popen documentation in 2.6 is probably wrong versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6490> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
