Georg Brandl added the comment:
Sorry, but you're confusing the os.popen* functions with the
popen3.popen* functions. (That they both exist, and return the handles
in different orders is a mess, but it is documented correctly.)
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nosy: +georg.brandl
resolution: -> invalid
status: open
New submission from Justin Bronn:
The Python website says that the following tuple is returned from
popen3: "Returns the file objects (child_stdout, child_stdin,
child_stderr)." See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-popen2.html.
However, the docstring of popen3 gets the order right (using Pytho