On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:38 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Sounds good to me. In 3.0 we should probably not have os.popen*(), nor > the popen2 module at all, and do everything via the subprocess module. > I wonder if we should even get rid of os.system(); then there should > be a subprocess.system() instead. And do we even need os.fork(), > os.exec*(), os.spawn*()?
Please don't remove os.fork and os.exec*. Some people need to fine-tune process creation and don't need portability to non-Unix OS'es. For them, the functions that call the underlying system API and little or nothing else are a god-send. _______________________________________________ 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
