[Python-Dev] FW: Fixing os.popen on Win32 => is the win32pipe stuff going to be adopted?

[Greg Stein]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, James C. Ahlstrom wrote:
>...
> > libc pipes ares as flaky as libc popen under Windows, Jim!  MarkH has the
> > only versions of these things that come close to working under Windows (he
> > wraps the native Win32 spellings of these things; MS's libc entry points
> > (which Python uses now) are much worse).
> 
> I believe you when you say popen() is flakey.  It is a little
> harder to believe it is not possible to write a _popen()
> replacement using pipes which works.
> 
> Of course I wanted you to do it instead of me!  Well, if
> I get any time before 1.6 comes out...

It *has* been done. Bill Tutt did it a long time ago. That's what
win32pipe is all about.

-g

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