On May 7, 2:58 pm, norseman <norse...@hughes.net> wrote: > If you don't like a lot of typing that obscures the process, > take a look at os.Popen2 Pg.39 or so in Lib.pdf for 2.5.2 > In this case - the popen3 is probably your best bet. > > I took a test run on "subprocess" a few months ago. My review: > excessive typing to accomplish the simple.
Hmm, I won't argue that it can be excessive typing, but I think its purpose isn't to accomplish the simple but to hit all the corners of subprocesses. What if you want os.system without the shell? What if you want popen with the shell? On Windows what if I want a subprocess without a console from a Python program in a console. Stuff like that. I still use os.system for Q&D stuff, but now use subprocess for everything else since I prefer thorough to short and sweet. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list