Alexey Borzenkov wrote: >> any reason you cannot just use the "subprocess" module instead, like >> everyone else? > > Oh! Wow! I just simply didn't know of its existance (I'm pretty much > new to python), and both distutils and SCons (I was looking inside > them because they are major build systems and surely had to execute > compilers somehow), and upon seeing that each of them invented their > own method of searching path created a delusion as if inventing custom > workarounds was the only way... Sorry... x_x
no problem. someone should really update the documentation to make sure that os.spawn and os.open and commands and popen2 and all the other 80%-solutions at least point to the subprocess module... (and if the library reference had been stored in a wiki, I'd fixed that before any- one else even got this mail...) </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
