[python-win32] windows friendly commands.getstatusoutput

[Reedick, Andrew]

The commands.getstatusoutput wraps the command in "{ cmd; } 2>&1".
Needless to say, this is not windows friendly:
import commands
	>>> import commands
	>>> status, output = commands.getstatusoutput('dir')
	>>> print status
	1
	>>> print output
	'{' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
	operable program or batch file.


Would it be worthwhile to submit a simple patch to get around this
prejudice?  Or is there some overwhelming reason to use subprocess.popen
directly and/or a win32api call instead?

Patched Lib/commands.py
def getstatusoutput(cmd):
    """Return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell."""

    import sys
    mswindows = (sys.platform == "win32")

    import os
    if not mswindows:
		cmd = '{ ' + cmd + '; }'

    pipe = os.popen(cmd + ' 2>&1', 'r')
    text = pipe.read()
    sts = pipe.close()
    if sts is None: sts = 0
    if text[-1:] == '\n': text = text[:-1]
    return sts, text


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