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

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Unless, it's as simple as replacing "os.system(x)" with
> "subprocess.system(x)", I'm against this removal of a handy shorthand.

Also, seeing as it's a well-known C library facility, and
Python likes to provide thin wrappers around the C library
wherever reasonable, its lack would seem a bit odd.

-- 
Greg