[Patches] [ python-Patches-1707753 ] get status output fix for Win32

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Patches item #1707753, was opened at 2007-04-25 19:13
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Category: Library (Lib)
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Ken Phillis Jr. (dandel1984)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: get status output fix for Win32

Initial Comment:
the two command output retrieval functions for python are broken on win32, and this patch fixes this, although it is possible that this fix will also work on dos, and os/2, but i am not sure about this... I've already tested it against python 2.5, 2.4 and 2.3, on windows xp and server 2k3.

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Comment By: Jason Orendorff (jorend)
Date: 2007-04-26 10:27

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Ken, thanks for the patch!  To be considered for Python 2.6, this patch
would have to update documentation (Doc/lib) and tests (Lib/test) as well.

But more importantly:  This entire module is likely to be deprecated in
Python 2.6, in favor of the subprocess module (which will gain new
functions, subprocess.get_output() and subprocess.get_status_output().) 
There was a long discussion about it on python-dev:

(start of a long thread)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/071929.html

(even more)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/072046.html

If that happens, there's no particular reason to do this, right?


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