Mike Driscoll wrote:
I note 3.0 runs os.popen without complaint (and had thought to mention
that in my previous). Right now I'm wondering whether I should
install the beta 2.6 to see whether Wotjek is pulling our leg or
not. :)
That was the wording I was referring to. Now that I re-read it, I
guess it doesn't say "deprecated" per se, but it seemed to imply it.
And I think one of the Python luminaries said as much (Holden or
Lundh) in one of their old posts last year.
not talking for the 3.X developers here, but os.popen is a binding to
the POSIX popen function, so I'm not sure it makes that much sense to
actually deprecate it.
the os.popen[234], popen2, and commands stuff are different -- they're a
a series of attempts to provide more functionality by building on
lower-level primitives, something that the subprocess module does a lot
better.
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