[Zope] Couple of 2.0b1 observations on win98

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Rob Page wrote:

> Depends what the meaning of the words "in Python" is...  :^)
> 
> You could write an External Method in Python:
> 
> import os
> some_script_output = os.popen("some_script.pl",'r').readlines()
> 
> some_script_output is then a list of lines of output.  In this example
> some_script.pl is in perl.
> 
> If you weren't interested in the output (i.e., you just wanted to run
> something), you could (I think) use:
> 
> import os
> os.system("some_script.pl")
Well, that's dangerous.
I'd much more prefer:
os.system("some_script.pl >/dev/null 2>/dev/null")

At least in the Bobo version, pcgi was VERY sensitive about things getting
written to stdout/stderr.

Andreas
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