R. David Murray added the comment:
The functions in the os module are (for the most part) thin wrappers around OS
apis (mostly posix). The 8 function reflect the posix functions. If you want
a convenience interface, use the subprocess module.
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New submission from Sworddragon:
I'm seeing in the documentation 8 different os.exec* functions that differ only
slightly. I think from the way they are differing they could also all be merged
into 1 function which could look like this:
os.exec(file, args, env, use_path)
- file is the path to
