In article <mailman.2142.1271960906.23598.python-l...@python.org>, J <dreadpiratej...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Say I had a file, foo.txt that I wanted to read from, only one time >and only read. > >So what's the difference between this: > >mylist = Popen(["cat","foo.txt"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0].splitlines() > >Is there a reason why you would not use subprocess.Popen for this, >other than just not relying on external programs to perfrom the task?
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