[Python-ideas] Adding a subprocess.CompletedProcess class

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 29 January 2015 at 03:47, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
>

Presumably that would need some kind of object representing a
not-yet-started process. Technically, that could be Popen, but for
backwards compatibility the Popen constructor needs to start the process,
and p = Popen(..., start=False) seems inelegant.

Let's imagine it's a new class called Command. Then you could start coming
up with interfaces like:

c = subprocess.Command(...)
c.stdout = fileobj
c.stderr = fileobj2
# Or
c.capture('combined')  # sets stdout=PIPE and stderr=STDOUT
# Maybe get into operator overloading?
pipeline = c | c2
# Could this work? Would probably require threading
c.stdout = BytesIO()
c.stderr_decoded = StringIO()
# When you've finished setting things up
c.run()  # returns a Popen instance


N.B. This is 'thinking aloud', not any kind of proposal - I'm not convinced
by any of that API myself.

Thomas
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