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8235	admin_scripts tests deprecation warning on Linux/Python 2.6b2	Karen Tracey	nobody	"Running the admin_scripts tests on Python 2.6 beta 2 I get a deprecation warning about popen3 (though that doesn't cause the tests to fail):

{{{
user@gutsy:~/tmp/django/trunk/tests$ /homedir/Python/Python-2.6b2/python runtests.py --settings=testsettings admin_scripts
/homedir/tmp/django/trunk/tests/regressiontests/admin_scripts/tests.py:109: DeprecationWarning: os.popen3 is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
  stdin, stdout, stderr = os.popen3(cmd)
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Ran 109 tests in 22.997s

OK

}}}

I do not get the warning running on Windows, so this may be specific to the way I built python (on Windows I used a prebuilt binary), though the warning is also seen in the Python community buildbot output: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/community/all/?show=sparc%20Solaris%2010%20trunk

I don't see any harm in using subprocess if it's available so I'll attach a patch that does that.  Patch was tested on

1 -- Linux Python 2.4.4, 2.5.1, 2.5b2

2 -- Windows Pyhton 2.3.5, 2.5.1, 2.6b2

"		closed	Testing framework	dev		fixed	python26		Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0