rbt wrote:
> Is it more appropriate to use os.popen or os.system on a windows XP
> client? I'm calling the operting system's shutdown function like this:
>
> restart = os.popen(shutdown -r -f)
> print restart.read()
> restart.close()
I don't think there's any significant difference between the above
(assuming you add in the missing quotation marks) and
os.system('shutdown -r -f'), except that the os.system() approach is
shorter and more readable if you are simply discarding or printing the
output like that.
> If it matters, I'm doing this remotely over sockets.
You can't be doing exactly that, since there are no sockets involved...
do you mean the above call is executed -- on the receiving end -- after
some signal is received via a socket in another part of the code?
That's not going to have any effect on things...
-Peter
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