[Python-Dev] Status of 2.7 and 3.2

[Antoine Pitrou]

anatoly techtonik <techtonik <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Just my 0.02 cents, but struggling with all warts of 2.5 subprocessing
> in Windows I would vote for more time for stabilizating things - not
> adding new features. Long awaited subprocess as replacement for
> os.popen() AFAIK is still incapable to asynchronously communicate with
> spawned processes on Windows. I would call this feature as critical
> even on 2.6  As a release testcase - try porting pyexpect module to
> this platform. Absence of native curses/console/readline module also
> makes Python one-way unix shell language while many users expect it to
> be crossplatform.

As always, patches and proposals are welcome!
However, as far as the above issues are concerned, it seems to be less a matter
of time between releases than of motivation to get things done (tm). I don't
think a knowledgeable and determined Windows programmer would have much trouble
solving each of them.

Regards

Antoine.