Howdy all, I'm looking to replace some usages of ‘os.system’ with the more secure ‘subprocess.Popen’ methods.
The module documentation has a section on replacing ‘os.system’ <http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess#replacing-os-system>, which says to use:: process = subprocess.Popen("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True) status = os.waitpid(process.pid, 0) But a ‘Popen’ instance has its own ‘wait’ method, which waits for exit <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess#subprocess.Popen.wait>. Why would I use ‘os.waitpid’ instead of:: process = subprocess.Popen("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True) process.wait() status = process.returncode -- \ “The best is the enemy of the good.” —Voltaire, _Dictionnaire | `\ Philosophique_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
