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## NAME
    _bootsubprocess

## MODULE REFERENCE
    <https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/_bootsubprocess.html>

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## DESCRIPTION
    Basic subprocess implementation for POSIX which only uses os functions. Only
    implement features required by setup.py to build C extension modules when
    subprocess is unavailable. setup.py is not used on Windows.

## CLASSES
    builtins.object
        Popen

### class Popen
     |  Popen(cmd, env=None)
     |
     |  # distutils.spawn used by distutils.command.build_ext
     |  # calls subprocess.Popen().wait()
     |
     |  Methods defined here:
     |
     |  __init__(self, cmd, env=None)
     |      Initialize self.  See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.
     |
     |  wait(self)
     |
     |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     |  Data descriptors defined here:
     |
     |  __dict__
     |      dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
     |
     |  __weakref__
     |      list of weak references to the object (if defined)

## FUNCTIONS
### check_output
        # _aix_support used by distutil.util calls subprocess.check_output()

## FILE
    /usr/lib/python3.10/_bootsubprocess.py