Wrap a function

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Jan 28, 10:20 am, Joan Miller <pelok... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've to call to many functions with the format:
>
> >>> run("cmd")
>
> were "cmd" is a command with its arguments to pass them to the shell
> and run it, i.e.
>
>
>
> >>>  run("pwd")
> or
> >>> run("ls /home")
>
> Does anybody knows any library to help me to avoid the use of the main
> quotes, and brackets?
>
> I would to use anything as:
>
> $ ls /home => run("ls /home")
>
> or, at least
>
> run pwd => run("pwd")

How about this?

def pwd(): return run("pwd")

pwd()

def ls(l=False, files=()):
    args = []
    if l: args.insert(0, '-l')
    args.append(files)
    return run("ls", args)

ls(l=True, "/foo")