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The few times I tried to de shell like things in Python, the absolute pain of actually running commands and getting to their output might be part of the reason.

• wryun 9y ago
  Have you tried plumbum or sh.py? They work well, if a bit magically, until you need to background a process.
• wutbrodo 9y ago
  That was my main pain initially after I finally switched away from writing my scripts in Bash, but it actually turned out to be pretty easy. I wrote a quick helper function that does 99% of what I need: def _call(cmd_str): return subprocess.check_output(shlex.split(cmd_str)).decode("utf-8") Definitely a verbose monstrosity compared to doing it in bash, but more than worth avoiding the garbage fire that is Bash. And it only works for simple cases
  • _mhr_ 9y ago
    Thank you for this.
• vapemaster 9y ago
  Use xonsh! Xonsh is an awesome fishy she'll that's a Python superset. $() is built right in.
• Goopplesoft 9y ago
  A while back I wrote a little test snippet[1] to see how good such an interface can get in python. _("ls -la") | _(lambda x: x.split()[-1]) | _(lambda x: os.path.splitext(x)[1]) I wonder if there's a complete version of something like this out there. You can probably get pretty far staying in Python-land, plus, everything else is free (data types, standard library, adoption, etc). [1] https://gist.github.com/pnegahdar/726cf2c65fc561db7831 https://gist.github.com/pnegahdar/726cf2c65fc561db7831
  • rollcat 9y ago
    Try playing with __getattr__, I'm sure "_.method" instead of "_(lambda x: x.method())" could be a thing.
• bobbyi_settv 9y ago
  subprocess.check_output(cmd) runs a command and returns the output, raising an exception if the command fails.
• camel_Snake 9y ago
  you can do this in ipython A = !cmd