[Python 2.4/2.5] subprocess module is sorely deficient?

[Harishankar]

On Tuesday 22 Apr 2008 19:02:17 Tim Golden wrote:
> Well if you want to, you can reproduce the same effect by using ctypes
> which *is* in the standard library. But why reinvent the wheel?

The reason is once again, rightly or wrongly I feel that using non-standard 
extensions could make it:

1. Difficult to distribute the application as I am not able to package the 
third-party extension with distutils.
2. Difficult to predict its behaviour with future versions of Python.

> Correct. It's part of the pywin32 extensions, one of many useful packages
> available to the discerning Python programmer who doesn't feel in some way
> bound to whatever comes bundled with the standard library.
>
> TJG
I wouldn't feel "bound" if I restricted the program to myself. But if I want 
to distribute it (as I intend to) I have to think of others as well.

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V. Harishankar

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