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Re: killing a script

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Date 2011-09-10 11:37 +1000
Subject Re: killing a script
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.923.1315618676.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>   This is implemented by calling the Standard C function system(), and
>>   has the same limitations.
>>
>> and sure enough, "man 3 system" says:
>
> I don't consider having to look up documentation for a function in a
> completely different language (in this case, C) as "documented behaviour of
> os.system".
>

The Python docs chain to the C docs. It'd be nice to have a link
somewhere, but that's platform-dependent - the online docs could link
to an online man page, but local docs can't, etc. It's fairly normal
for high level languages to expose a lot of C API functions, with all
the concerns and features given. Not a lot of point bloating the
Python docs with every little detail, imho.

ChrisA

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killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 18:15 -0700
  Re: killing a script MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-08-29 02:52 +0100
    Re: killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 19:41 -0700
      Re: killing a script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 12:51 +1000
        Re: killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 20:08 -0700
          Re: killing a script Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-28 20:16 -0700
            Re: killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 20:22 -0700
            Re: killing a script "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 14:26 -0700
          Re: killing a script Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-29 09:49 +0200
          Re: killing a script Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 23:53 +0100
            Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-30 14:13 +1000
              Re: killing a script Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-08-30 12:40 +0200
              Re: killing a script Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-09 10:03 +1000
                Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-09 19:07 +1000
                Re: killing a script Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-09-09 12:13 +0200
                Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-09 22:16 +1000
                Re: killing a script Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-10 08:29 +1000
                Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-10 11:25 +1000
                Re: killing a script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 11:37 +1000
                Re: killing a script Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-10 18:49 +1000
                Re: killing a script Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-11 15:08 +1000
                Re: killing a script Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-10 10:47 +0100
      Re: killing a script Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-28 19:53 -0700
  Re: killing a script Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-29 07:52 +0100

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