Miles Kaufmann <mile...@umich.edu> writes:
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Why would I use ‘os.waitpid’ instead of::
> >
> > process = subprocess.Popen("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True)
> > process.wait()
> > status = process.returncode
>
> Really, you can just use:
>
> process = subprocess.Popen("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True)
> status = process.wait()
Ah thanks, that's even better.
> I'm not sure why the documentation suggests using os.waitpid.
Could someone who knows how to drive the Python BTS please report that
against the ‘subprocess’ documentation?
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