Wrap a function

[Ben Finney]

Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > It's no sin to say that Python isn't a good choice for specific
> > things; and “I want to write programs by indistinguishably mixing
> > statements with external system calls” is one of them, IMO

> > From 
> http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/debugging-with-syscall-tracers.html#terminology
>
>    A quick note on terminology: open() is typically a system call.
[…]

That is a different use of “system call”. I used it in the ‘os.system’
sense: meaning “invoke an external OS command as a child of this
process”.

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Ben Finney