STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
Its documentation in both 2.6 and 2.7 notes:
Deprecated since version 2.6: This function is obsolete. Use the subprocess module.
The deprecation should be removed from Python 2.7: os.popen() will not be removed from Python 2 because 2.7 is the last major version of the 2.x branch. And os.popen() will stay in Python 3: see #6490 and the Guido's message http://bugs.python.org/issue6490#msg90572
If it was decided to keep os.popen alive, it *should* be documented in 3.x
Yes, os.popen() must be documented in Python 3. Do you want to write a patch to restore the doc? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9382> _______________________________________