Waiting for a subprocess to exit

[Ben Finney]

Miles Kaufmann <milesck at umich.edu> writes:

> On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Why would I use ‘os.waitpid’ instead of::
> >
> >    process = subprocess.Popen("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True)
> >    process.wait()
> >    status = process.returncode
>
> Really, you can just use:
>
>   process = subprocess.Popen("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True)
>   status = process.wait()

Ah thanks, that's even better.

> I'm not sure why the documentation suggests using os.waitpid.

Could someone who knows how to drive the Python BTS please report that
against the ‘subprocess’ documentation?

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