[Python-Dev] The os module, unix and win32

[Peter Astrand]

> > win32all covers a huge number of API functions, more then would
> > be sane to add to os. But would there be any mileage in added
> > enough from win32all to allow problems like popen5 to be
> > implemented?
> > 
> > There is already the _reg module that has some win32 functions in
> > it on the standard install.
> 
> (Not sure if this was in response to my "let's do it in Python" post.)
> 
> How many APIs would have to be copied from win32all to enable
> implementing popen5 in Python?

I'm not sure since I haven't implemented much yet, but we'll need at 
least:

win32.CreatePipe
win32api.DuplicateHandle
win32api.GetCurrentProcess
win32process.CreateProcess
win32process.STARTUPINFO
win32gui.EnumThreadWindows
win32event.WaitForSingleObject
win32process.TerminateProcess


-- 
/Peter Åstrand <astrand at lysator.liu.se>