os.popen command working differently on Windows

[Nobody]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:21:41 +0100, Tim Golden wrote:

> os.popen returns a file-like object from which you can read any error
> messages generated.

The documentation doesn't say, but if it's anything like the Unix popen()
function, with mode='r' the returned file-like object will correspond to
the child's stdout, but error messages will normally be written to stderr.

In any case, os.popen() and similar are deprecated in favour of
subprocess.Popen().