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  r55238 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-10 16:46:05 -0700 (Thu, 10 May 2007) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 55227 via svnmerge from
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    r55227 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-10 10:20:15 -0700 (Thu, 10 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix a bug in test_c_api() that caused a negative refcount.
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  r55246 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 00:01:52 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove commands.getstatus() it is obsolete.
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  r55248 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 00:29:05 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove bsddb185 support.
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  r55249 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 00:29:50 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove bsddb185 module too
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  r55250 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 00:32:13 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  bsddb185: Gotta remove from the file checked in, not Setup
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  r55251 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 00:53:26 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove obsolete IRIX modules (as much as I could find, there is probably more)
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  r55252 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 00:55:35 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove SGI turd.
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  r55254 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-11 03:11:01 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Add a case for set comprehensions to the "cannot assign to" switch.
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  r55255 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-11 03:11:25 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix wrong imports.
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  r55261 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-11 07:37:48 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove removed tex files.
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  r55262 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-11 08:28:41 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Commit PEP 3132 implementation.
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  r55264 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-11 08:50:19 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Check in the inevitable AST version number and format Py_ssize_t with %zd.
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  r55265 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 09:12:22 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove mention of os.popen* and popen2.* since these will be removed.
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  r55266 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 09:19:57 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  Get doc to build again (almost, the doc is fine)
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  r55267 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 09:21:02 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  Really get doc to build (remove use of string module)
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  r55269 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-11 09:29:43 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007) | 1 line

  Add some notes to cleanup later
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Lib/subprocess.py

@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ intends to replace several other, older modules and functions, like:
 
 os.system
 os.spawn*
-os.popen*
-popen2.*
 commands.*
 
 Information about how the subprocess module can be used to replace these
@@ -283,73 +281,6 @@ Environment example:
 os.spawnlpe(os.P_NOWAIT, "/bin/mycmd", "mycmd", "myarg", env)
 ==>
 Popen(["/bin/mycmd", "myarg"], env={"PATH": "/usr/bin"})
-
-
-Replacing os.popen*
--------------------
-pipe = os.popen(cmd, mode='r', bufsize)
-==>
-pipe = Popen(cmd, shell=True, bufsize=bufsize, stdout=PIPE).stdout
-
-pipe = os.popen(cmd, mode='w', bufsize)
-==>
-pipe = Popen(cmd, shell=True, bufsize=bufsize, stdin=PIPE).stdin
-
-
-(child_stdin, child_stdout) = os.popen2(cmd, mode, bufsize)
-==>
-p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, bufsize=bufsize,
-          stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, close_fds=True)
-(child_stdin, child_stdout) = (p.stdin, p.stdout)
-
-
-(child_stdin,
- child_stdout,
- child_stderr) = os.popen3(cmd, mode, bufsize)
-==>
-p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, bufsize=bufsize,
-          stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, close_fds=True)
-(child_stdin,
- child_stdout,
- child_stderr) = (p.stdin, p.stdout, p.stderr)
-
-
-(child_stdin, child_stdout_and_stderr) = os.popen4(cmd, mode, bufsize)
-==>
-p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, bufsize=bufsize,
-          stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, close_fds=True)
-(child_stdin, child_stdout_and_stderr) = (p.stdin, p.stdout)
-
-
-Replacing popen2.*
-------------------
-Note: If the cmd argument to popen2 functions is a string, the command
-is executed through /bin/sh.  If it is a list, the command is directly
-executed.
-
-(child_stdout, child_stdin) = popen2.popen2("somestring", bufsize, mode)
-==>
-p = Popen(["somestring"], shell=True, bufsize=bufsize
-          stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, close_fds=True)
-(child_stdout, child_stdin) = (p.stdout, p.stdin)
-
-
-(child_stdout, child_stdin) = popen2.popen2(["mycmd", "myarg"], bufsize, mode)
-==>
-p = Popen(["mycmd", "myarg"], bufsize=bufsize,
-          stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, close_fds=True)
-(child_stdout, child_stdin) = (p.stdout, p.stdin)
-
-The popen2.Popen3 and popen3.Popen4 basically works as subprocess.Popen,
-except that:
-
-* subprocess.Popen raises an exception if the execution fails
-* the capturestderr argument is replaced with the stderr argument.
-* stdin=PIPE and stdout=PIPE must be specified.
-* popen2 closes all filedescriptors by default, but you have to specify
-  close_fds=True with subprocess.Popen.
-
-
 """
 
 import sys