Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, I forgot to mention that it also has a more user- and
> programmer-friendly ExitStatus object that processess can return. This
> is directly testable in Python:
>
> proc = proctools.spawn("somecommand")
> exitstatus = proc.wait()
>
> if exitstatus:
> print "good result (errorlevel of zero)"
> else:
> print exitstatus # prints message with exit value
This sounds rather like the new subprocess module...
>>> import subprocess
>>> rc = subprocess.call(["ls", "-l"])
total 381896
-rw-r--r-- 1 ncw ncw 1542 Oct 12 17:55 1
[snip]
-rw-r--r-- 1 ncw ncw 713 Nov 16 08:18 z~
>>> print rc
0
IMHO the new subprocess module is a very well thought out interface...
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