Blocked revisions 67536-67537,67543 via svnmerge

Blocked revisions 67536-67537,67543 via svnmerge

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  r67536 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-12-04 21:21:09 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Adds a subprocess.check_call_output() function to return the output from a
  process on success or raise an exception on error.
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  r67537 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-04 21:32:18 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Took Nick Coghlan's advice about importing warnings globally in logging, to avoid the possibility of race conditions: "This could deadlock if a thread spawned as a side effect of importing a module happens to trigger a warning. warnings is pulled into sys.modules as part of the interpreter startup - having a global 'import warnings' shouldn't have any real effect on logging's import time."
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  r67543 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-12-05 03:27:01 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  rename the new check_call_output to check_output.  its less ugly.
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