[Scons-dev] Subprocess.popen() on win32?

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Sat Oct 6 14:03:00 EDT 2018


On 10/06/2018 06:43 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-10-05 at 10:32 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
>> Come now.
>> Win32.py's spawn implementation was updated in 2012.. ;)
> 
> :-)
> 
>> If we universally switch to subprocess.Popen(), then we can safely chdir
>> for non python function actions.
>> But passing in the cwd argument.
>>
>> That seems likely to be useful..
> 
> I'd say switching to subprocess.Popen was just the right thing to do. The
> Python 2.7 documentation says this is so.


I should add I previously created an issue on the general topic of
subprocess. I've just poked this thread into there.

https://github.com/SCons/scons/issues/3178


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