TKinter on Win98 and os.popen

[David Fisher]

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On 2/3/00, 6:59:02 AM, "Damian Dobroczyñski" <dd at ar-kari.put.poznan.pl> 
wrote regarding TKinter on Win98 and os.popen :


> Problem description:

> script:

> import os
> f = os.popen('python -c "print 1"','r')

> on Win98 Python in IDLE shell ends up with exception:

> "Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ?
>     f = os.popen('python -c "print 1"','r')
> OSError: (0, 'Error')"

> Other 'popens' with other commands also fails. Is it normal behaviour 
when
> using Tkinter mod?

This one's in the faq.  It's a bug on win9x with the popen command.  
On win9x, popen expects a console to redirect i/o to.  In idle and 
Tkinter, there is no console open.  I spent about two days beating my 
head against this on, before i realized it wasn't my fault <0.1wink>.  
The faq sugests some fixes, but i just started using os.system and 
redirecting to/from a file.  Which is ugly, but that's win32 for you.  
The microsoft site also has some info about this.
David Fisher