Re: no `subprocess' module

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > >   ImportError: No module named subprocess
> > > 
> > > I use python 2.3.3 which doesn't have this.
> > 
> > We had the same problem in git. Fortunately, python 2.3.3 is perfectly 
> > able to run subprocess; it just lacks it.
> > 
> > You can download it at
> > 
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=git/git.git;a=blob_plain;h=bbd26c7b0e80798f1bf4e92b6150bd30c44f3143;f=compat/subprocess.py
> 
> Thanks.  It should be distributed with lilypond, then.

Umm. Python is *not* GPL. In particular, subprocess.py is *not* GPL. We 
first had to get the permission to redistribute it from the author. The 
file itself says

# Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement.
# See http://www.python.org/2.4/license for licensing details.

Hth,
Dscho