On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:31 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 09:34:34AM -0400, Calvin Spealman wrote: > > > Simply put, there is no valid use case for os.system over subprocess > > If you depreciate and then remove os.system, all you will do is force > people to re-invent it, badly and inefficiently. Indeed. Usability counts, as does not arbitrarily breaking vast amounts of existing code that Just Works. Every code-breaking deprecation is an invitation for unseen thousands or millions to ponder, "Hm, this script doesn't work anymore. Maybe now is the time to look at Node or Rust." -Peter
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