Issue #10197 Rework subprocess.get[status]output to use subprocess functionality and thus to work on Windows. Patch by Nick Coghlan.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 4c9f29bdb8..77f1ba3155 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -2133,13 +2133,6 @@ class Win32ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
     def test_terminate_dead(self):
         self._kill_dead_process('terminate')
 
-
-# The module says:
-#   "NB This only works (and is only relevant) for UNIX."
-#
-# Actually, getoutput should work on any platform with an os.popen, but
-# I'll take the comment as given, and skip this suite.
-@unittest.skipUnless(os.name == 'posix', "only relevant for UNIX")
 class CommandTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_getoutput(self):
         self.assertEqual(subprocess.getoutput('echo xyzzy'), 'xyzzy')
@@ -2153,8 +2146,8 @@ class CommandTests(unittest.TestCase):
         try:
             dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
             name = os.path.join(dir, "foo")
-
-            status, output = subprocess.getstatusoutput('cat ' + name)
+            status, output = subprocess.getstatusoutput(
+                ("type " if mswindows else "cat ") + name)
             self.assertNotEqual(status, 0)
         finally:
             if dir is not None: