"Fixing" os.system on Windows

[Howard B. Golden]

As explained in Hammond and Robinson's book, "Python Programming on
Win32," on p. 324, and in Section 6.1.5 of the Library Reference,
os.system() doesn't return the exit status of the process under Windows.

Carey Evans showed a version of system() that gets the exit code under
Windows in his message:

http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-May/009409.html

I hope this could be adopted into the Windows part of the core Python
system, so that os.system() will work the same under Windows and Unix.
If there is some reason for not doing this, I'd appreciate it if
someone would explain it.

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Howard B. Golden


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