STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > Victor: did you notice that getoutput and friends call os.popen?
Yes, because I wrote a patch to call directly subprocess :-) => see the issue #10197. I don't want to remove os.popen() anymore, it's too much work for a minor gain (we will remove it in Python 4). But we can add a note in its documentation saying that the subprocess should be prefered. > But that is only true in general, and os.popen was never > a "thin" wrapper, at least on most platforms. os.popen() was a thin wrapper in Python 2.x: posix.popen() was a wrapper of the popen() C function. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6490> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
