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

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Chef/Puppet/Fabric example is a good one to support this point - Ruby,
> like Python is also more a dev language than a sysadmin language, and yet
> Chef & Puppet are written in Ruby and not Perl.

For the key operation I'm talking about here, though, Ruby works the
same way Perl does: it supports shell command execution via backtick
quoted strings with implicit string interpolation.

Is it really that hard to admit that there are some tasks that other
languages are currently just plain better for than Python, and perhaps
we can learn something useful from that? (And no, I'm not suggesting
we adopt backtick command execution or implicit string interpolation.
A convenience API that combines shell invocation, explicit string
interpolation and whitespace and shell metacharacter quoting, though,
*that* I support).

Cheers,
Nick.

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