[Python-Dev] new popen for win32! [status update]

[Guido van Rossum]

> > (wouldn't it make sense if os.popen2 and os.popen3 were also available
> > on Unix?)
> 
> definitely.  I suggest moving the bulk of popen2.py to os.py (alternatively,
> to a separate "posixpopen.py" module which is imported from os.py on
> posix platforms).
> 
> the popen2 module itself is then reduced to a thin wrapper, and marked
> as deprecated.
> 
> comments?

Sounds good to me.

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