[Python-Dev] 'commands' module on Win32

[Nick Coghlan]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

>>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/)
> 
> 

OK - I'll add something along these lines to the bug report.

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