On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 7:12 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:48 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> > wrote: > > > > The check_output() function of the subprocess module raises an > > exception if the process returns a non-zero exit status. This is > > inconvenient for commands such as grep that use the return > > status to indicate something other than success or failure. > > > > The check_call() function has a companion call(), but here is > > currently no non-checking companion for check_call(). How > > about adding one with a signature such as > > > > output(args) --> (status, output) > > Isn't this already available as: run(args, stdout=PIPE)? Is the object > to the extra typing, or...? >
Or discoverability. If you want to run a subprocess and catch its output, you'll naturally reach for check_output, and it feels clunkier to have to use run() instead. +1 on adding a nice simple function, although I'm not 100% sold on the name "output". ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
