Avoiding shell metacharacters in os.popen

[Michael Hoffman]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:

> As I pointed out in my post there isn't an equivalent for
> os.popen* which doesn't go via the shell (except for undocumented
> os.popen2).

Is it the undocumented nature of it that is unnerving you?

I submitted a bug on the documentation more than six months ago but no 
one has responded.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=907457&group_id=5470&atid=105470
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Michael Hoffman