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Fri Jul 1 15:11:55 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-July/054548.html

"Darryl Dixon" <esrever_otua at pythonhacker.is-a-geek.net> wrote in message 
news:1120192174.9535.4.camel at unixadmindazfc2.chh.co.nz...
> Python on Windows.  The Python interface to this function is in the C
> code in msvcrtmodule.c, which has a (very thin) wrapper around the raw
> OS system call.

I think Fredrik made two points in this regard.  1) The current 
thin-wrapperness is intentional, not a bug.  2) Changing the behavior would 
break programs that depend on this feature.  Not good.

So, as Aahz also suggested, I suspect a new function might have more 
chance.

Terry J. Reedy

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