Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment: This is a request for changing the current behavior on Unix, and I doubt this is going to happen, since it could break existing code.
On a side note, there are already two ways get the desired output: >>> Popen("gcc --version", shell=True) gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-23ubuntu3) ... >>> p = Popen(["gcc", "--version"], stdout=PIPE) >>> p.stdout.read() b'gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) ... ---------- nosy: +skrah resolution: -> rejected stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> pending type: behavior -> feature request _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6689> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com