Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.049 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.90; '*S*': 0.00; 'problem:': 0.07; 'other,': 0.09; 'spawn': 0.09; 'aug': 0.13; 'ben,': 0.16; 'benjamin': 0.16; 'deprecated.': 0.16; 'forty': 0.16; 'subprocess': 0.16; 'mon,': 0.16; "shouldn't": 0.17; 'tim': 0.18; 'module': 0.19; 'cheers': 0.24; 'allows': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'older': 0.27; 'instead.': 0.27; 'replace': 0.27; 'url:mailman': 0.29; 'no,': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'implement': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.32; 'johnson': 0.32; 'url:listinfo': 0.32; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'version': 0.34; 'thanks': 0.34; 'url:org': 0.36; 'modules': 0.36; 'anything': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'several': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'content-disposition:inline': 0.60; 'management': 0.65; 'stuck': 0.65; 'as:': 0.75; 'subject:get': 0.81; 'subject:status': 0.84; 'glad': 0.86; 'dennis': 0.91; 'intends': 0.91; 'processes,': 0.93 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:29:50 -0800 From: Tim Johnson To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: popen4 - get exit status Mail-Followup-To: python-list@python.org References: <20120827223938.GZ35917@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20120827234359.GA35917@mail.akwebsoft.com> <76mo38heqavlv4huh4jvl1si57jb62tnnu@invalid.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <76mo38heqavlv4huh4jvl1si57jb62tnnu@invalid.netcom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: AkWebsoft X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1346196600 news.xs4all.nl 6963 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59913 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:28032 * Dennis Lee Bieber [120828 07:11]: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:43:59 -0800, Tim Johnson > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > * Benjamin Kaplan [120827 15:20]: > > > The popen* functions are deprecated. You should use the subprocess module > > > instead. > > No, I'm stuck with py 2.4 on one of the servers I'm using and > > Shouldn't be a problem: > > -=-=-=- > 17.1 subprocess -- Subprocess management > > New in version 2.4. Thanks Dennis, I had misread the docs, you're right - after rereading them I has able to implement subprocess - glad to have it as I no longer have any servers to 'service' with anything older than 2.4. And Ben, please accept my apologies for seeming so dismissive. cheers tj > The subprocess module allows you to spawn new processes, connect to > their input/output/error pipes, and obtain their return codes. This > module intends to replace several other, older modules and functions, > such as: > -=-=-=- > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com