On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

> Steven Knight wrote:
>
> > > The Python documenation says os.system() doesn't return an exit value at
> > > all for MS-Windows 9x. It looks like spawn*() doesn't do the needed
> > > things either. This probably means I need to add some C code to do it
> > > properly... That makes it a lot more difficult to install A-A-P, thus I
> > > certainly hope a Python-only solution can be found.
> >
> > os.spawn*() works fine so long as you pass os.P_WAIT as the first
> > argument, to wait for the exit status of the command.
>
> It looks like os.spawn*() only executes one command, not a shell command
> or pipeline like "cat file | sed expr > tt".

A shell command or pipeline is operating system specific also, if it can't
be done with Python alone, you always have multi platform support problems.

What are the OS-es that need to be supported?

Best regards,

Aschwin Marsman

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