> I was reading the docs for the commands module and noticed getstatus() seems > to be completely unrelated to getstatusoutput() and getoutput(). I thought, > "I'll correct the docs. They must be wrong." Then I looked at commands.py > and saw the docs are correct. It's the function definition which is weird. > Of what use is it to return 'ls -ld file'? Based on its name I would have > guessed its function was > > def getoutput(cmd): > """Return status of executing cmd in a shell.""" > return getstatusoutput(cmd)[0] > > This particular function dates from 1990, so it clearly can't just be > deleted, but it seems completely superfluous to me, especially given the > existence of os.stat, os.listdir, etc. Should it be deprecated or modified > to do (what I think is) the obvious thing? That whole module wasn't thought out very well. I recently tried to use it and found that the strip of the trailing \n on getoutput() is also a counterproductive feature. I suggest that someone should design a replacement, perhaps to live in shutil, and then we can deprecate it. Until then I would leave it alone. Certainly don't "fix" it by doing something incompatible. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4