[Python-ideas] Adding a subprocess.CompletedProcess class
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 12:47:17 CET 2015
On 29 January 2015 at 08:13, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2015, at 09:43 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
>
>>Ugh, yes. I would follow that for consistency, though I'd love to come up
>>with a way to clean that up too. The fact that 'decode the output' is
>>spelled 'universal_newlines' is one of my least favourite things about
>>subprocess.
>
> Not me; it's one of those sekrits that ensures Python 3 porters job
> security. ;)
I still suspect we should be offering a simpler way to decouple the
creation of the pipes from the subprocess call, but I have no idea
what that API should look like, and as ugly and unintuitive as it is,
the existing universal_newlines trick does address all of my *actual*
use cases :P
Cheers,
Nick.
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