Difference between Popen and open() for reading a file

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.2142.1271960906.23598.python-list at python.org>,
J  <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Say I had a file, foo.txt that I wanted to read from, only one time
>and only read.
>
>So what's the difference between this:
>
>mylist = Popen(["cat","foo.txt"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0].splitlines()
>
>Is there a reason why you would not use subprocess.Popen for this,
>other than just not relying on external programs to perfrom the task?

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