Inquiry regarding the name of subprocess.Popen class

[Nicola Musatti]

On Sep 1, 9:23 am, Jeremy Banks <jer... at jeremybanks.ca> wrote:
> Hi. I wondered if anyone knew the rationale behind the naming of the
> Popen class in the subprocess module. Popen sounds like the a suitable
> name for a function that created a subprocess, but the object itself is
> a subprocess, not a "popen". It seems that it would be more accurate to
> just name the class Subprocess, can anyone explain why this is not the
> case?

The Python class is a generalization of the standard Posix function of
(almost) the same name: http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xsh/popen.html

Cheers,
Nicola Musatti