[Pythonmac-SIG] interaction with OS X commands

[Michael Hudson]

eichin at metacarta.com writes:

> Mmm, looks like subprocess.call() does what os.system should have done
> all along, 

Bah.  os.system wraps the C call system().  It's possible that Python
should have provided The One Obvious Way of doing this better before
now (on unix, at least, there have been a bewildering array of ways of
doing better for a Long Time), but, well, os.system isn't the place to
hang it.  So There :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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