[Python-3000] os.popen versus subprocess.Popen

[Guido van Rossum]

I think the original plan was to reimplement os.popen() on top of
subprocess.py as a convenience (the API is an order of magnitude
simpler). That still sounds good to me.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:44 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > IMO os.popen() is wrong here.
>
>  Should os.popen go away entirely?
>
>  Apparently, it does two things:
>  a) redefine close to block until the child process terminated,
>  and
>  b) wrap stdout/stdout with a TextIOWrapper
>
>  If there is an actual need to specify an encoding when communicating
>  with the subprocess, I'd rather make that parameter to Popen itself.
>
>  Regards,
>  Martin
>



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