[issue6490] os.popen documentation in 2.6 is probably wrong

2009-07-16 Thread krawyoti
krawyoti added the comment: Georg, please note that os.popen *is* documented in 3.1. See attached screen shot. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14509/docs.png ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6

[issue6490] os.popen documentation in 2.6 is probably wrong

2009-07-15 Thread krawyoti
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[issue6490] os.popen documentation in 2.6 is probably wrong

2009-07-15 Thread krawyoti
New submission from krawyoti : The documentation in Python 2.6 claims os.popen is deprecated [1]. This is probably a false claim. I think that at some point os.popen got confused with os.popen2, os.popen3, os.popen4 and the popen2 module, all of which are correctly deprecated. I bring three