Guido van Rossum wrote:
Unless, it's as simple as replacing "os.system(x)" with
"subprocess.system(x)", I'm against this removal of a handy shorthand.
Also, seeing as it's a well-known C library facility, and
Python likes to provide thin wrappers around the C library
wherever reasonable, its la
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to propose formally marking os.system() as deprecated in the
>> docs for next release of Python (v3.2 ?).
>>
>> The docs for os.system() /already/ include the following paragraph,
>> which is basically tantamount to c
Is it possible to use subprocess functionality in os.system()? Just
exactly describe what it does instead of "This is implemented by
calling the Standard C function system(), and has the same
limitations." type sentences.
--
anatoly t.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:52 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> Th
The current text is:
The subprocess module provides more powerful facilities for
spawning new processes and retrieving their results; using that
module is preferable to using this function. See the Replacing
Older Functions with the subprocess Module section in the
subprocess d
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:42:06 pm Chris Rebert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to propose formally marking os.system() as deprecated in the
> docs for next release of Python (v3.2 ?).
-0.5 on that. I often use os.system() for quick and dirty scripts that
just call an external process without caring wh
Unless, it's as simple as replacing "os.system(x)" with
"subprocess.system(x)", I'm against this removal of a handy shorthand.
Ditto for popen.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to propose formally marking os.system() as deprecated in the
> docs for next
Hello,
I'd like to propose formally marking os.system() as deprecated in the
docs for next release of Python (v3.2 ?).
The docs for os.system() /already/ include the following paragraph,
which is basically tantamount to calling system() deprecated and very
much resembles the deprecation notes for
