[Python-3000] os.popen versus subprocess.Popen

In Python 3.0, it seems that os.popen yields a string, whereas subprocess.Popen yields bytes $ ./python Python 3.0a4 (r30a4:62119, Apr 12 2008, 18:15:16) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more informati

Re: [Python-3000] sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(long)

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:32:41 +1200 Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Cournapeau wrote: > > > Maybe everyone understands it as 8 bits, but it has always been wrong. > > It may not be officially written down anywhere, but > almost everyone in the world understands a byte to mean > 8 bi