[ python-Feature Requests-1713624 ] commands module

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Feature Requests item #1713624, was opened at 2007-05-05 22:11
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Category: Windows
Group: Python 2.6
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Joseph Armbruster (joearmbruster)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: commands module

Initial Comment:
In reference to the commands module, and it's simple self   :-)

Current comments in the module state the following:

# Module 'commands'
#
# Various tools for executing commands and looking at their output and status.
#
# NB This only works (and is only relevant) for UNIX.

Ultimately, I would like to see the following:

1) This comment removed:
# NB This only works (and is only relevant) for UNIX.

1) A change to getstatusoutput along these lines:
    if os.name == 'nt':
        pipe = os.popen(cmd + ' 2>&1','r')
    else:
        pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')

* I was going to suggest having a more pythonic getstatus method, that would act reasonably similar across platforms (maybe using some combination of os.listdir and os.stat or something), however, it is being deprecated, so onward!

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