globaleaks/GlobaLeaks — comment on commit 9cc171640a31e7be9abc9a5a5728e2321e6bd11a
File: globaleaks/applications/globaleaks/modules/compress_material.py line 33
By hellais:

We should always avoid executing directly commands. This is for cross compatibility. If you run a command you should at least wrap it inside another function, so we can do checks on the OS.

Another options would be to use: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/python.asp, but it is not open source :(.

The other possibility is to use ctypes to link do a .dll, .so etc.