[New-bugs-announce] [issue11003] os.system should be deprecated in favour of subprocess module

[Jakob Bowyer]

New submission from Jakob Bowyer <jkbbwr at gmail.com>:

os.system is broken in several fundamental ways. We already have the subprocess module for accessing other processes, lets send os.system the same way as os.Popen.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 126995
nosy: Jakob.Bowyer
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.system should be deprecated in favour of subprocess module
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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