[issue11377] Deprecate (remove?) platform.popen()

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:

Extract of the documentation:
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15.14.3.1. Win95/98 specific

platform.popen(cmd, mode='r', bufsize=None)

Portable popen() interface. Find a working popen implementation preferring win32pipe.popen(). On Windows NT, win32pipe.popen() should work; on Windows 9x it hangs due to bugs in the MS C library.
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Python 3 doesn't support Windows 9x/Me anymore: we should deprecate it, or maybe directly remove it.

subprocess.Popen() is a better alternative: it supports Unicode, it handles EINTR, etc.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 129905
nosy: haypo, lemburg
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Deprecate (remove?) platform.popen()
versions: Python 3.3

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