[Python-ideas] shutil.runret and shutil.runout

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:52 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> subprocess is low level, cryptic, does too much, with poor usability,
> i.e. "don't make me think" is not about it. I don't know about you,
> but I can hardly write any subprocess call without spending at least
> 5-10 meditating over the documentation. So, I propose two high level
> KISS functions for shell utils (shutil) module:
>
> runret(command)   - run command through shell, return ret code
>

mmm you are describing subprocess.call()  here... I don't see how this new
command makes thing better, besides shell=True.




> runout(command)  - run command through shell, return output
>

what is 'output' ? the stderr ? the stdout ? a merge of both ?

what about subprocess.check_output() ?


>
> To avoid subprocess story (that makes Python too complicated)
>

I seems to me that the only complication here is shell=True, which seems ok
to me to have it at False for security reasons.


Cheers
Tarek

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