Is there a limit to os.popen()?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <mailman.8060.1152690667.27775.python-list at python.org>,
 Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

>If you are seeing alot of error messages you shoudl really redirect the 
>standard error to a file to avoid them cluttering up your console.

Surely a better technique would be to fix the errors causing the 
messages.