[Python-Dev] 'commands' module on Win32

[Guido van Rossum]

> Bug #1008275 refers to attempting to run commands.getstatusoutput() on 
> win32, and the fact that it breaks.

Hm...  That module's functionality is such a small improvement over
raw os.popen, it would never have been admitted into the standard
library these days.

I'd rather see this added as a higher-level API to one of the process
management modules that are floating around, one of which will
eventually land in the library, at which point we can deprecate
commands.py.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)