Commit c71c23e3 authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Added \versionchanged comment to os.popen() noting that it was unreliable

in earlier versions of Python; this is useful information for people
interested in writing code that is portable across Python versions.

Suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
parent 63eb6300
......@@ -284,6 +284,12 @@ available as the return value of the \method{close()} method of the file
object, except that when the exit status is zero (termination without
errors), \code{None} is returned.
Availability: \UNIX{}, Windows.
\versionchanged[This function worked unreliably under Windows in
earlier versions of Python. This was due to the use of the
\cfunction{_popen()} function from the libraries provided with
Windows. Newer versions of Python do not use the broken
implementation from the Windows libraries]{2.0}
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{tmpfile}{}
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