A tale of two execs

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Mon Feb 23 14:08:44 EST 2009


bieffe62 at gmail.com wrote
> I checked, and, for windows platform subprocess.py uses the modules
> mvscrt and _subprocess, which I ham unable to
> locate on my windows XP python 2.6 installation. This make the whole
> thing harder, even impossible if _subprocess has
> been created especially for subprocess.py.

Some modules are built into pythonXX.dll. You won't find them in the
file system.

The subprocess module either requires _subprocess or it can be switched
to pywin32. Check out the head of the file!

Christian




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