Oren Tirosh wrote: >> os.systems / commands etc etc. I realise the subprocess module may have >> what I need but I can't get python 2.4 on the Mac so I need a 2.3 based >> solution. Any help is much appreciated. Cheers. > > The Python 2.4 subprocess module by Peter Astrand is pure python for > posix systems (a small C extension module is required only for win32 > systems). You can bundle it with your code and use it with older > Python versions. It even contains backward compatibility code to > replace True and False if not found so it can run on Python 2.2.
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