[Python-Dev] w9xpopen.exe is still in 3.2

[James Y Knight]

On Feb 20, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Am 20.02.2011 07:43, schrieb anatoly techtonik:
>> Python definitely needs a development Roadmap to avoid things like
>> w9xpopen.exe slipping off radar from release to release. We don't
>> support Windows 9x since Python 2.6. What this file does in 3.x
>> distributions?
>> 
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue2405
> 
> Read the report carefully. It can't be removed to support installations
> that have changed COMSPEC.

Does a modern windows installation actually even *work* if you change COMSPEC to command.com instead of cmd.exe? And why would anyone ever do that? Hey, I have a good idea: python can just ignore COMSPEC and always run cmd.exe. Then you can delete w9xpopen, hooray.

James