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556.8.3.6 Replacing popen2.*</A>
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60If the cmd argument to popen2 functions is a string, the command
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66(child_stdout, child_stdin) = popen2.popen2("somestring", bufsize, mode)
67==&gt;
68p = Popen(["somestring"], shell=True, bufsize=bufsize,
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70(child_stdout, child_stdin) = (p.stdout, p.stdin)
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75(child_stdout, child_stdin) = popen2.popen2(["mycmd", "myarg"], bufsize, mode)
76==&gt;
77p = Popen(["mycmd", "myarg"], bufsize=bufsize,
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93<LI>the <var>capturestderr</var> argument is replaced with the <var>stderr</var>
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98<LI>stdin=PIPE and stdout=PIPE must be specified.
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