I really like Julia's API for starting/controlling subprocesses better than the ones I've used in Python. (This is purely personal opinion, and is like skewed by having a better understanding of what I was doing when I used Julia.) Both of them can do the same things, so it's mostly a matter of which API you prefer.
The relevant manual section: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.3/manual/running-external-programs/ A blog post I wrote: http://blog.leahhanson.us/running-shell-commands-from-julia.html The manual section talks more about Cmd objects (semantics, construction); my blog post mostly gives examples of calling functions on Cmds (or calling related functions). Neither of these resources is long; if you read both of them, you should have a pretty fair idea of what you can do from Julia and whether it has the capabilities you'll need for your specific use-cases. -- Leah On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Kevin Squire <kevin.squ...@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as capabilities are concerned, they should be pretty similar, > although Julia hasn't been used as much for those things, and do likely > still has some usage and bug issues lurking. > > One thing you'll probably find is that Julia's startup time might be a bit > slow if you need anything beyond what's in Base. Precompiled modules are > coming, but right now, modules are compiled on load. > > Other questions to ask yourself are who else will need to maintain things, > and how willing you are to test and report bugs, usage issues, or > documentation improvements. > > Julia is great for a lot of things, but is a lot younger than python, and > so likely won't work as well out of the box. > > Just my opinions, others may differ. > > Cheers! > Kevin > > > On Friday, August 29, 2014, Ariel Katz <arikatz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Is there any effective differential between Julia and Python's >> capabilities(subprocess module etc) and ease of use for general task >> scripting and automation in windows and unix? >> >> Is there any reason one would be more suitable than the other? >> >> Thanks and have a great weekend! >> >> Ari >> >
