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Author	matthieu.labbe
Recipients	matthieu.labbe, mrwizard82d1, orsenthil, ssbarnea
Date	2010-07-16.10:01:44
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I think this is a bug: The doc says "Availability: UNIX." but it is available under Windows and gives an unexpected error message. I see several way to fix this: 1) Fix the doc: "Supported only on UNIX. Behavior on other platforms is undefined." 2) Make subprocess.getstatusoutput (and subprocess.getoutput) unavailable on non-supported platforms. (Same behavior as the 'os' module.) 3) Make these convenience functions multiplatform using subprocess.Popen. I think the best thing to do is #3. What do you think?

I think this is a bug: The doc says "Availability: UNIX." but it is *available* under Windows and gives an unexpected error message.

I see several way to fix this:
1) Fix the doc: "Supported only on UNIX. Behavior on other platforms is undefined."
2) Make subprocess.getstatusoutput (and subprocess.getoutput) unavailable on non-supported platforms. (Same behavior as the 'os' module.) 
3) Make these convenience functions multiplatform using subprocess.Popen.

I think the best thing to do is #3. What do you think?

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Date	User	Action	Args
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