[Python-Dev] os.spawnlp() missing on Windows in 2.4?

[Scott Dial]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I just got a report from a Windows user that os.spawnlp() is missing
> from Python 2.4, despite being mentioned in the docs. Can someone
> confirm this? My Windows box is resting. :-)
> 

"Availability: Unix, Windows. spawnlp(), spawnlpe(), spawnvp() and 
spawnvpe() are not available on Windows. New in version 1.6."

One could argue that it presented poorly, but it reads completely 
correct. Alternatively one could says "The 'p' variants are unavailable 
on Windows." but that would be assuming someone understand there was a 
scheme to the names :-)

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