[Pythonmac-SIG] interaction with OS X commands

[brad.allen at omsdal.com]

Thanks for the advice, Bob. The subprocess.py module is indeed turning out
to be more elegant and user-friendly than the os.popen and os.spawnv way of
doing things.

Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote on 10/19/2004 03:40:47 PM:

>
> On Oct 19, 2004, at 16:36, brad.allen at omsdal.com wrote:
>
> > Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote on 10/18/2004 06:40:08 PM:
> >
> >> No it does not require Python 2.4.  If you look at PEP 291 it says
> >> that
> >> subprocess shall remain backwards compatible with Python 2.2.
> >
> > That sounds promising, but I haven't had much luck finding where to
> > download it or instructions on how to install it. Is it a simple pure
> > Python module with no outside dependencies? Can I simply distribute
> > this
> > module in a directory alongside my other Python modules & packages?
>
> The URL I provided tells you exactly where to get it from: a CVS
> repository.  It has a setup.py, so you install it like you install
> anything else.. though you could just copy subprocess.py wherever it
> needs to go.  Alternatively you can get it from Python 2.4 CVS.
>
> Yes it is a simple Python module with no dependencies (on win32 it
> requires a _subprocess extension).
>
> Yes you can simply distribute the module in a directory alongside your
> other modules/packages.
>
> -bob
>