Python 2.6 report

[Martin Geisler]

Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> writes:

> Martin Geisler wrote:
>> What about including the subprocess module with Mercurial, like the
>> byterange.py file?
>> 
>> The subprocess module says it is backwards compatible with Python 2.2.
>
> Would be fine with me, if it's easy to do. But I think 2.4
> subprocess is largely written in C, so not sure how easy it is.
> Though I do think I saw a pure-Python version somewhere.

I looked at the subprocess.py file found in my Python installation,
and it has a switch at the top with an "if 0:" which selects between
some pywin32 imports and a _subprocess import:

if mswindows:
    import threading
    import msvcrt
    if 0: # <-- change this to use pywin32 instead of the _subprocess driver
        import pywintypes
        from win32api import GetStdHandle, STD_INPUT_HANDLE
        # ...
    else:
        from _subprocess import *
        # ...

-- 
Martin Geisler

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