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Why do you use subprocess.Popen versus os.popen?

April 26, 2017os.popen versus

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Why do you use subprocess.Popen versus os.popen?

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Because windows does not play nicely with os.popen and the primer3_core binary. That being said, there remains an ‘issue’ with subprocess.Popen and py2exe, and you must call it as follows (if building the windows GUI using py2exe): p=subprocess.Popen(pathToPrimer3,shell=True,stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE,universal_newlines=True).