Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:55:54PM +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >> but the instances of `Popen` are no actions. There's no way to >> "execute" a `Popen` instance. > > Yes there is... you execute it when you instantiate the object. At > the time of instantiation, you "open" the "P" (pipes).
The subprocess module is also supposed to replace os.system and os.spawn*, neither of which involve opening pipes. (I use it for that functionality just as often, if not more so, as for piped subprocess communication). All rationalizations aside, I think Popen is a poor name for the class. But I would imagine the odds of it ever being changed are miniscule (Python 4?). -Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
