Kudos to documentors: (popen2)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "RS" == Robb Shecter <shecter at darmstadt.gmd.de> writes:

    RS> What I eventually did was start a Python interpreter, do a
    RS> method call, and print the returned objects - which told me
    RS> their types.

And this actually points out one of Python's greatest assets, its
interactive interpreter.  It's even cooler in JPython where you can
just import a random Java class and fiddle with it to see what it
does.

-Barry