New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: I've been doing a few systems administration tasks with Python recently, and shell command invocation directly via the subprocess module is annoyingly clunky (even with the new convenience APIs).
Since subprocess needs to avoid the shell by default for security reasons, I suggest we add the following simple helper functions to shutil: def call(cmd, *args, **kwds): if args or kwds: cmd = cmd.format(*args, **kwds) return subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True) def check_call(cmd, *args, **kwds): if args or kwds: cmd = cmd.format(*args, **kwds) return subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True) def check_output(cmd, *args, **kwds): if args or kwds: cmd = cmd.format(*args, **kwds) return subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True) Initially posted at: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577891-simple-invocation-of-shell-commands/ Of course, even if others agree in principle, documentation and tests are still needed before this change can go anywhere. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 146061 nosy: ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add shell command helpers to shutil module versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13238> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com