Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > It's no sin to say that Python isn't a good choice for specific > > things; and “I want to write programs by indistinguishably mixing > > statements with external system calls” is one of them, IMO
> > From > http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/debugging-with-syscall-tracers.html#terminology > > A quick note on terminology: open() is typically a system call. […] That is a different use of “system call”. I used it in the ‘os.system’ sense: meaning “invoke an external OS command as a child of this process”. -- \ “I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to | `\ barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under | _o__) any of them.” —Emo Philips | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
