[Python-Dev] test_popen broken on Win2K

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:08:44 +1300 (NZDT)


> I think Jeff was suggesting that we implement it like this:
> 
> def plumb(cmd):
>     import Tkinter
>     return Tkinter.call('exec ' + cmd)

But then you'd be going through the bottleneck of a
string syntax with all its attendant quoting problems.
The whole point of my suggestion was to avoid that!

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