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July 26, 2010
3:52 p.m.
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 documentation for some helpful recipes. We could soften "using that module is preferable" to say "may be", or just delete that whole clause completely. --amk