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From: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] showing file diffs as root
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 20:34:55
Message-Id: 4C02CBC3.2010104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] showing file diffs as root by Christopher Harvey
1 On 05/30/10 16:59, Christopher Harvey wrote:
2 > [..] because calling
3 > os.system("meld file1 file2 &") in python is putting up so many red
4 > flags in my head it's not funny. [..]
5
6 On a sidenote: the subprocess module offers better alternatives to
7 calling os.system:
8 http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
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10 Best,
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14 Sebastian