os.popen

[P at draigBrady.com]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> 1.  Why 
>       sh ./ping.sh ...
>     rather than
>       ./ping.sh ...
>     ?

Maybe he didn't make ping.sh executable for some reason.
Not relevant to this discussion.

> 2.  For more typical processes that launch and run to 
>     completion, yes, to the best of my knowledge, it 
>     *is* feasible to simplify 
>       op = os.popen(command)
>       op.read()
>       op.close()
>     to just
>       op = os.popen(command)
>       op.close()

iff the command doesn't fill the buffer.
If it does then it will not run to completion.

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