On 8/29/2014 9:16 PM, ps16thypresenceisfullnessof...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, August 29, 2014 8:54:47 PM UTC-4, Terry Reedy wrote:
Please be more specific as to python installer source, python
version,
and location. I do not see it in my 2.7.8 directory installed by
the psf
.msi installer.
I'm also using the Python 2.7.8 MSI installer from the PSF, but the
32-bit version of it. The file is in the top-level Python27
directory. I just checked, and a 64-bit installation of Python 2.7
that I have access to doesn't contain w9xpopen.exe. Are you using the
64-bit version? I don't see the need for it in the 32-bit version
either, unless there's a reason I'm not aware of.
The tracker has a search function. Searching all issues for 'w9xpopen'
turned up 15 issues including
http://bugs.python.org/issue2405
The last msg by (benrg) starts "on Windows 7 32-bit with COMSPEC
pointing to command.com, platform.popen('dir').read() works with
w9xpopen and fails (no output) without it."
http://bugs.python.org/issue14470
In 3.4, we no longer support platforms that set COMSPEC to command.com,
hence 'BOOM'.
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