[Python-ideas] shutil.run (Was: shutil.runret and shutil.runout)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, security implications are one of the reasons why I've held back from
> proposing Shell Command. The lack of cross platform support is also a pain.
> This suggestion shares both of those problems.

Why shutil.run() is not cross-platform?
Is it technically feasible to make shutil.run() (or subprocess.* for
that purpose) cross-platform?

> Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :)

That's actually lowers a bounce rate for discussion. =)