New submission from Vitali Lovich: The subprocess module provides a good foundation of basic functionality. However, anything moderately complex becomes cumbersome to write. Additionally, it has pitfalls that people frequently overlook.
People then often either resort to hand-rolling their own abstraction on top of it, use the library incorrectly, or just use shell scripts if the predominant action is to stitch things together. I have seen great success at avoiding having to write shell-scripts & using the sh package. What once would have been written as shell-scripts now can be written very naturally using sh in a more maintainable & reusable manner. I think sh being part of the standard library would be a great addition & make python even more compelling as a replacement for shell scripts. Having sh be part of the python library also ensures that the `with` syntax could be done in a comprehensive thread-safe manner. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sh http://amoffat.github.com/sh ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 246574 nosy: Vitali Lovich priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: standardize sh module _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24607> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
