[Doc-SIG] Missing platform information in subprocess documentation

Aaron Bingham bingham at cenix-bioscience.com
Thu Aug 3 16:50:24 CEST 2006


Aaron Bingham wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In the Python 2.4 documentation for the subprocess.Popen class 
>(http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node235.html), many of the 
>platform differences are documented clearly.  However the preexec_fn 
>keyword argument is not supported on Windows and this is not mentioned 
>anywhere obvious.
>  
>
close_fds is also not supported on Windows, as I discovered shortly 
after sending the original e-mail.

Thanks,

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