Inquiry regarding the name of subprocess.Popen class

[Derek Martin]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:20:18AM -0400, Miles wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:55:54PM +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> >> but the instances of `Popen` are no actions.  There's no way to
> >> "execute" a `Popen` instance.
> >
> > Yes there is... you execute it when you instantiate the object.  At
> > the time of instantiation, you "open" the "P" (pipes).
> 
> The subprocess module is also supposed to replace os.system and
> os.spawn*, neither of which involve opening pipes. 

Uh... it's a replacement for os.popen(), which -- guess what -- opens
pipes.

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Derek D. Martin
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