Re: os.execute on steroids:

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

Why not make this kind of things under some 'nonportable.*' namespace?

I mean, hiding them under 'io.*' is not the optimal solution. To begin 
with, undocumented features are not optimal anyhow (if someone uses 
them).

-ak

Tuomo Valkonen kirjoittaa maanantaina, 8. maaliskuuta 2004, kello 14:14:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:56:32AM +0000, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:01, Enrico Colombini wrote:
> > > On Monday 08 March 2004 09:35, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> > > > io.popen.
> > > Unfortunately it's not available on all systems.
> > Neither's the > operator.
>
> Infact, I don't think there is any portable way to redirect the
> output of a program to a file, so there's no way to make a portable
> (to non-POSIX systems) implementation of io.popen functionality.
>
> --
> Tuomo