On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> This is implemented by calling the Standard C function system(), and >> has the same limitations. >> >> and sure enough, "man 3 system" says: > > I don't consider having to look up documentation for a function in a > completely different language (in this case, C) as "documented behaviour of > os.system". >
The Python docs chain to the C docs. It'd be nice to have a link somewhere, but that's platform-dependent - the online docs could link to an online man page, but local docs can't, etc. It's fairly normal for high level languages to expose a lot of C API functions, with all the concerns and features given. Not a lot of point bloating the Python docs with every little detail, imho. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
