[issue1279] os.system() oddity under Windows XP SP2

[Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens]

New submission from Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens:

When doing such
os.system("a command wich writes a outfile")
f = open("the file the command before wrote")

the file is empty.

If I do this:

os.popen("a command wich writes a outfile")
f = open("the file the command before wrote")

everything is fine

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 56439
nosy: pythonmeister
severity: major
status: open
title: os.system() oddity under Windows XP SP2
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.3

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