R. David Murray added the comment:
Indeed. If you want shell scripting, use a shell script. The advantage of
python scripting is exactly that you are using non-shell, with explicit control
of what gets substituted where rather than the shell's implicit rules.
Regardless our our opinions, tho
Skip Montanaro added the comment:
While it's an interesting library, my fear is that people will start shelling
out to all sorts of things which Python already has builtin. One of the
examples on the github site was showing how to call "ls". Another example
invoked "wc". neither of those is pa
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 o
