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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:27:25 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: rogerh906@gmail.com
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On 09Aug2015 10:55, rogerh906@gmail.com <rogerh906@gmail.com> wrote:
>But WOW! Python is described as an easy to learn language. I don't think so!

The language itself is pretty compact and expressive. You also need to gain 
some familarity with the standard library that comes with it. That has lots of 
stuff. "subprocess" is part of the library.

I'm not sure what metric you're using here for "easy to learn".

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>