[Zope] os module on different os's

[Chris Withers]

garry saddington wrote:
> I have a Zope application that runs on WinXP and Debian sarge without
> problems. I am using os.popen and popen2 to run locally installed
> applications and use their output in Zope (particularly aspell and
> diction).

I'd suggest moving to the new subprocess module which packages these up 
in a platform independent way...

> problem with recent Distros and this module? Python version is 2.3 on
> all systems but I tried 2.4 on FC5 and that failed too. 

You need to be using Zope 2.9 and Python 2.4 to have access to the 
subprocess module, but I'd strongly recommend it in your case...

Chris

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