no universal newlines in os.popen

Torsten Marek · Aug 8, 2003

Is it a bug that
os.popen("some_nifty_command some_arg", "rU")
gives
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
in Python 2.3?

greetings

Torsten

Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?= · Aug 8, 2003

Torsten Marek said:
Is it a bug that
os.popen("some_nifty_command some_arg", "rU")
gives
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
in Python 2.3?

Yes.

Martin

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