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On 10/08/2015 03:55, Roger Hunter wrote:
> I agree that some of Python is simple but the description of subprocess
> is certainly not.
>
> I spent much of my working career using Fortran and TrueBasic on mainframes.

That's good.  It means that you were probably taught to read and write 
from left to right *AND* from top to bottom.  Would you like to keep to 
that convention here please as it makes following long threads much 
easier, thank you.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence