[Python-Dev] PEP 324: popen5 - New POSIX process module
Donn Cave
donn at drizzle.com
Wed Jan 7 01:08:35 EST 2004
Quoth Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com>:
| Peter writes:
|> There's a new PEP available:
|>
|> PEP 324: popen5 - New POSIX process module
|>
|> A copy is included below. Comments are appreciated.
...
| And I vote +1 on changing the name from "popen5" to something else.
| "process" (as suggested in the PEP) isn't too bad, but I'd certainly be
| open to another name. If this is to replace the entire rest of the popenX
| family for most normal purposes, a separate, more comprehensible name
| will help newbies find it.
"process" is not only ambiguous, it's a little off-target if the
software in question is more about executing foreign commands, as
opposed to process management in general. So I'd be open to another
name, too.
Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com
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