[Python-Dev] deprecate commands.getstatus()

[Hrvoje Nikšić]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:38 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Sounds good to me. In 3.0 we should probably not have os.popen*(), nor
> the popen2 module at all, and do everything via the subprocess module.
> I wonder if we should even get rid of os.system(); then there should
> be a subprocess.system() instead. And do we even need os.fork(),
> os.exec*(), os.spawn*()?

Please don't remove os.fork and os.exec*.  Some people need to fine-tune
process creation and don't need portability to non-Unix OS'es.  For
them, the functions that call the underlying system API and little or
nothing else are a god-send.