Shashwat Anand <anand.shash...@gmail.com> added the comment: Tested it on mac OSX (Snow leopard)
Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ python2.5 popentest.py time with os.popen : 0.0342061519623 time with subprocess.Popen : 0.0421631336212 Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ python2.6 --version Python 2.6.1 Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ python2.6 popentest.py time with os.popen : 0.0282561779022 time with subprocess.Popen : 0.0366630554199 Python 2.5.4s os.popen was faster than subprocess.Popen, the same being the case with Python 2.6.1 I do not think it is a mac issue. ---------- nosy: +l0nwlf _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4194> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com