[IronPython] os.system equivalent

[Reed L. O'Brien]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> The best replacement is probably nt.spawnl - it looks like this has been reported in the issue tracker over the weekend, and someone else has commented that it should be high-priority.  So with 3 reports all at once I've gone ahead and moved this to high priority.  Thanks for the bug report!
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> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Erich Lin
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:26 PM
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> Subject: [IronPython] os.system equivalent
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to run a shell command, specifically msbuild, and pstools.
> nt.system and os.system run on python, but neither of those run on ironpython.  How would you do this using IronPython.
> 
> Thanks
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I don't know how much weight it carries but the CPython subprocess
module is to replace the older ways.

from the subprocess docs:
"""
This module intends to replace several other, older modules and
functions, such as:

os.system
os.spawn*
os.popen*
popen2.*
commands.*
"""