On Aug 13, 3:03 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > </F>
Interesting. Good to know. Thanks for the clarification. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
