[Python-Dev] Interest in seeing sh.py in the stdlib

[Benjamin Peterson]

2012/10/20 Andrew Moffat <andrew.robert.moffat at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the author of sh.py, a subprocess module rewrite for Linux and OSX.  It
> serves as a powerful and intuitive interface to launching subprocesses
> http://amoffat.github.com/sh/.  It has been maintained on github
> https://github.com/amoffat/sh for about 10 months and currently has about
> 25k installs, according to pythonpackages.com.
>
> Andy Grover maintains the Fedora rpm for sh.py
> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=94247  and Nick
> Moffit has submitted an older version of sh.py (which was called pbs) to be
> included in Debian distros
> http://pkgs.org/debian-wheezy/debian-main-i386/python-pbs_0.95-1_all.deb.html
>
> I'm interested in making sh.py more accessible to help bring Python forward
> in the area of shell scripting, so I'm interested in seeing if sh would be
> suitable for the standard library.  Is there any other interest in something
> like this?

You should try the python-ideas list.


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Regards,
Benjamin