Message 172057 - Python tracker

Message172057

Author	vstinner
Recipients	David.Benjamin, jcea, lemburg, pitrou, python-dev, vstinner
Date	2012-10-05.07:18:02
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> You can use subprocess in platform for Python 2.7, but only if > it's available. Otherwise the module must fall back to the > portable popen() that comes with the platform module. Marc-Andre: I still don't understand why you want to run platform.py of Python 2.7 on older Python version? How does it happen? I expected Python 2.3 to use its own version of platform.py.

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> You can use subprocess in platform for Python 2.7, but only if
> it's available. Otherwise the module must fall back to the
> portable popen() that comes with the platform module.

Marc-Andre: I still don't understand why you want to run platform.py
of Python 2.7 on older Python version? How does it happen? I expected
Python 2.3 to use its own version of platform.py.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-10-05 07:18:03	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, jcea, pitrou, python-dev, David.Benjamin
2012-10-05 07:18:03	vstinner	link	issue16112 messages
2012-10-05 07:18:02	vstinner	create