Win XP: Problem with shell scripting in Python

[John Machin]

On 9/06/2006 10:47 AM, John Machin wrote:

> Now it's *your* turn to do something for the cause. It appears to me 
> that popen4 has exactly the same documentation as popen3, as recently as 
> 2.5a2. I see no fourth gizmoid here.
> 
> Whoooaaah! "4" is not a gizmoid count:
> 
> |>>> handles = os.popen4('MD :')
> |>>> handles
> (<open file 'MD :', mode 'w' at 0x00AAF698>, <open file 'MD :', mode 'r' 
> at 0x00
> AAF4E8>)
> 
> You might like to suss this out, and raise a request to have the docs 
> fixed.

OK, OK, alright already. I didn't read the docs closely enough. Forget 
the doc-fix request. It looks like it will pay you to investigate popen4 
a bit further :-)

Cheers,