I think that classic Macs were already dead and buried when I designed this -- in my recollection I really only cared about UNIX (which includes OSX) and Windows.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Terry Reedy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/23/2013 2:13 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> I would recommend trying to use the subprocess module. >> > > Rev 71746, 2011-8-3, switched subprocess startup from os.spawnv to > subprocess for 3.2 +, but not for 2.7 ;-(. > > > I don't believe >> it existed when I first designed this part of IDLE. >> > > The 2.x startup line was last revised 2003-8-14 and must date from > earlier. Subprocess arrived in 2.4, 2004 Nov 30. > > > However I would not >> use communicate(), which is meant as a simplified API for sending one >> input string and waiting for the subprocess to exit. >> > > Or at least get whatever output is ready. > > > There is a low-level API to let you send multiple strings >> > > and receive output back as it becomes available. > > Right, Popen.stdin/out/err are the 'file' objects. > > os.popen3 also makes these available, but was unix, windows only. I > presume that excludes classic Macs. Is that why sockets were used instead? > > Switching from sockets, which do not always connect, to pipes established > as part of the popen call should also make it more feasible to always run > user code in a subprocess and eliminate the -n option. > http://bugs.python.org/**issue16123 <http://bugs.python.org/issue16123> > and thereby simplify some sections of code. Amaury suggested the switch on > that issue. > > > (You may have to create threads to read stdout and stderr.) >> > > I hope not ;-). > > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > ______________________________**_________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/idle-dev<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev> > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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