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Author rhettinger
Recipients Jakob.Bowyer, rhettinger, skip.montanaro
Date 2011-01-25.18:52:18
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I'm inclined to reject this out-of-hand.  The os.system() call is a basic call that had been around for very long time, has been widely used successfully, and has parallels in other languages.

Please elaborate on "is broken i several fundamental ways."
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