Is the subprocess module robust enough in 2.4?

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The subprocess module was added in Python 2.4.  I'm running 2.4.5 at work.
I know it's seen many bugfixes since first released.  Is the version in 2.4
robust enough to use in preference to os.popen and friends?

Thx,

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