subprocess only good for win32?

[wukong]

On Mar 31, 3:47 pm, "Martin v. Loewis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > WindowsError: [Error 14001] The application has failed to start
> > because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the
> > application event log for more detail
>
> This is a configuration error on your system. The application you are
> trying to start is incorrectly installed - it's not only that Python
> can't start it, but nobody can.
>
> Regards,
> Martin

but python runs happy otherwise, only this call to subprocess resulted
in an err.  does anyone know for sure subprocess runs on win64?  or
any others like, popen does?
thanks
wk