Donn Cave wrote: >> Not according the the docs: >> >> Also, for each of these variants, on Unix, cmd may be a >> sequence, in which case arguments will be passed directly to >> the program without shell intervention (as with os.spawnv()). >> If cmd is a string it will be passed to the shell (as with >> os.system()). >> >> It's not exactly clear what "these variants" refer to, but I >> read it as referring to all of the the os.popen functions. >> >> Perhaps it only refers to os.popen[234]? > > Right. The paragraphs seem a little scrambled. Note > the use of "cmd" instead of "command" as the parameter > is named for popen(). Also note "These methods do not > make it possible to retrieve the return code from the > child processes", after the popen() paragraph above tells > you how to do it (using the better term "exit status".) > > Or one may look at the source.
FYI, I checked in a little fix to the docs which makes clear what functions the paragraphs pertain to. Also, I changed "return code" to "exit status". Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
