[New-bugs-announce] [issue4697] Clarification needed for subprocess convenience functions in Python 3.0 documentation

[Erik Sternerson]

New submission from Erik Sternerson <erik at sternerson.se>:

There are two new convenience functions in the subprocess module since
Python 3.0, getstatusoutput and getoutput. These are UNIX ONLY functions
(as per note "# NB This only works (and is only relevant) for UNIX." in
subprocess.py)

I believe the documentation page
http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/subprocess.html does not reflect this
sufficiently (not sure it does at all).

I suggest a note should be added saying "Availability: UNIX" to the two
functions mentioned.

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
messages: 78044
nosy: Erik Sternerson, georg.brandl
severity: normal
status: open
title: Clarification needed for subprocess convenience functions in Python 3.0 documentation
versions: Python 3.0

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