[Python-Dev] marking os.system() as deprecated in the docs

[anatoly techtonik]

Is it possible to use subprocess functionality in os.system()? Just
exactly describe what it does instead of "This is implemented by
calling the Standard C function system(), and has the same
limitations." type sentences.

--
anatoly t.



On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:52 PM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> The current text is:
>
>    The subprocess module provides more powerful facilities for
>    spawning new processes and retrieving their results; using that
>    module is preferable to using this function. See the Replacing
>    Older Functions with the subprocess Module section in the
>    subprocess documentation for some helpful recipes.
>
> We could soften "using that module is preferable" to say "may be", or
> just delete that whole clause completely.
>
> --amk
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