Availability of the popen2 module / documentation bug

[Gordon McMillan]

Stefan Franke writes:

> http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-popen2.html claims that the
> popen2 module is available on Unix and Windows. However, 1.5.2's
> popen2.popen2 doesn't work on Windows (yet?).
> 
> There has been some discussion in the "Faking bi-directional pipes
> under Windows?" thread last december, but qpparently no consensus
> was reached.

In Mark's Win32 extensions is a win32pipe module that provides a drop 
in replacement. Pipes at the C RTL level are busted on Win32; it 
takes using the raw Win32 API.
 
> BTW, does anyone know how to refer to Deja(news) articles properly?
> I wanted to point to the above thread, but the URLs of search
> results are too long to fit into a single line.

If you're feeling nice, warn people to paste carefully.

- Gordon