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Arevos · Sep 14th, 2006, 3:14 AM

Portability, like optimization, is not always worth the effort. It's up to the programmer to judge whether it is needed. If your program is designed just to run a Windows executable, then there's little point in making things hard for yourself and using cross-platform functions like popen, when os.system will do what you want in less bytes of code and less effort on behalf of the programmer.

I fail to see the point of spending time to make part of a program portable, when it can only function on win32 systems anyway. It's utterly pointless.

Sep 14th, 2006, 3:14 AM	#12
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	Portability, like optimization, is not always worth the effort. It's up to the programmer to judge whether it is needed. If your program is designed just to run a Windows executable, then there's little point in making things hard for yourself and using cross-platform functions like popen, when os.system will do what you want in less bytes of code and less effort on behalf of the programmer. I fail to see the point of spending time to make part of a program portable, when it can only function on win32 systems anyway. It's utterly pointless.