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

[Georg Brandl]

On 10/20/2012 11:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 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.

In addition, let me say upfront that while the library looks very nice at
a glance, its behavior is much too magical to be included as a standard
library IMO.

cheers,
Georg