I'd like to give you an updated status report of the popen5 project. Since my last post at 2004-06-04, this has happened: * The module has been renamed to "subprocess", primarily to avoid collision with Trent Mick's module. * I've added support for executing a command through the shell. This is done by using a keyword argument shell=True. Executing through the shell is supported both on Windows and POSIX systems. * The modules doesn't require Mark Hammond's Windows extensions any longer: Fredrik Lundh has contributed an extension module that provides the needed Win32 API. * The PEP now includes more implementation notes, as well as a lot of examples. An updated PEP has been sent to the PEP editors. With these changes, the subprocess module now feels quite complete. In the near future, I will focus on getting the module included in the standard library. The module is available from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/popen5/. /Peter Åstrand <astrand@lysator.liu.se>