Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
This is so true that these functions are now documented as deprecated:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.popen2
Please use the subprocess.Popen class instead, which gives a much better
interface to processes.
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New submission from Justin Cappos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The behavior of popen vs popen[2-4] differs with respect to open file
descriptors (at least on the Linux implementation of popen). popen
does not close file descriptors, thus processes retain open file
descriptors from their parent. This
