[Tutor] system call

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Mon Oct 29 12:33:28 CET 2007


James wrote:

> The subprocess module is meant to replace spawn, popen2, os.system()  
> etc. if I'm not mistaken.

Yes.

> Take a look at this excellent resource I've used numerous times:
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0324/

The same information (with better format but split between multiple 
pages) is in the module docs at
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html

Kent



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