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
Speaking of this, is it too late to lobby for an iterator version of
os.listdir? (Perhaps listdir would not be the best name. :)
There is one at
http://wxidle.sourceforge.net/projects/xlistdir/
but I think it ought to be in the standard library. Moreover, if we
had such a thing, shouldn't os.w
