os.system question

[Mike Driscoll]

On Aug 13, 3:03 pm, Fredrik Lundh <fred... at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> >> I note 3.0 runs os.popen without complaint (and had thought to mention
> >> that in my previous).  Right now I'm wondering whether I should
> >> install the beta 2.6 to see whether Wotjek is pulling our leg or
> >> not. :)
>
> > That was the wording I was referring to. Now that I re-read it, I
> > guess it doesn't say "deprecated" per se, but it seemed to imply it.
> > And I think one of the Python luminaries said as much (Holden or
> > Lundh) in one of their old posts last year.
>
> not talking for the 3.X developers here, but os.popen is a binding to
> the POSIX popen function, so I'm not sure it makes that much sense to
> actually deprecate it.
>
> the os.popen[234], popen2, and commands stuff are different -- they're a
> a series of attempts to provide more functionality by building on
> lower-level primitives, something that the subprocess module does a lot
> better.
>
> </F>

Interesting. Good to know. Thanks for the clarification.

Mike