"Fixing" os.system on Windows

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8h71ec$oh4$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
Howard B. Golden  <hgolden at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>Carey Evans showed a version of system() that gets the exit code under
>Windows in his message:
>
>http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-May/009409.html
>
>I hope this could be adopted into the Windows part of the core Python
>system, so that os.system() will work the same under Windows and Unix.
>If there is some reason for not doing this, I'd appreciate it if
>someone would explain it.

Looks like it requires the win32 extensions; I believe those are not
currently part of the core Python distributions.
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