New submission from anatoly techtonik:
I always thought that subprocess is replacing all other methods of executing
external programs from Python and it is a preferred way. Perhaps I was not
attentive that people isolate:
os.system
os.spawn*
os.popen*
and
os.exec*
While subprocess replaces three first, it doesn't do this with the last one.
The documentation should mention this in the header block. Proposed edit:
...
replace several other, older modules and functions, such as:
os.system
os.spawn*
os.popen*
popen2.*
commands.*
+ Note that it doesn't replace other ways of executing external
+ processes from Python, such as:
+
+ os.exec*
Information about how the subprocess module can be used
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 198188
nosy: docs@python, techtonik
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: docs: note that subprocess doesn't replace os.exec*
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python
3.4, Python 3.5
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