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Python 2.7 Compatibility
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.. module:: kitchen.pycompat27.subprocess
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Subprocess from Python 2.7
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The :mod:`subprocess` module included here is a direct import from
python-2.7's |stdlib|_. You can access it via::
>>> from kitchen.pycompat27 import subprocess
The motivation for including this module is that various API changing
improvements have been made to subprocess over time. The following is a list
of the known changes to :mod:`subprocess` with the python version they were
introduced in:
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New API Feature Ver
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:exc:`subprocess.CalledProcessError` 2.5
:func:`subprocess.check_call` 2.5
:func:`subprocess.check_output` 2.7
:meth:`subprocess.Popen.send_signal` 2.6
:meth:`subprocess.Popen.terminate` 2.6
:meth:`subprocess.Popen.kill` 2.6
==================================== ===
.. seealso::
The stdlib :mod:`subprocess` documenation
For complete documentation on how to use subprocess