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Author eric.araujo
Recipients bpoaugust, brian.curtin, eric.araujo, flox, jldm, ncoghlan, ned.deily, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2011-10-25.16:11:00
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> IMO, both should be deprecated:
> - they're not cross-platform
Isn’t the purpose of this report to fix that? :)

> - they invoke the shell implicitly, which subprocess promises never to do
One could argue that it’s not implicit if it’s documented.  Nonetheless, I agree that they don’t fit well with the subprocess promises.

So, +1 on deprecating and +1 on new, safer helpers.
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2011-10-25 16:11:01eric.araujosetrecipients: + eric.araujo, ncoghlan, vstinner, ned.deily, r.david.murray, brian.curtin, flox, jldm, bpoaugust
2011-10-25 16:11:01eric.araujosetmessageid: <1319559061.93.0.957417062573.issue10197@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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