[issue798520] os.popen with invalid mode differs on Windows and POSIX

[anatoly techtonik]

anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> added the comment:

I can confirm this but, but os.popen() is deprecated in 2.6 hence there
is no point in fixing generated exception even though in a language that
claims to be cross-platform exceptions should be unified.

I would add os.popen to keywords list for future reference and close
this bug as "won't fix". There are many other bugs about os.popen on
windows platform and people would be interested to know exactly why
subprocess should be used.

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nosy: +techtonik

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