99.9% of all process management can be done with oneliner subprocess.check_output. Not verbose at all and much safer. Biggest mistake people do is bringing bas

99.9% of all process management can be done with oneliner subprocess.check_output. Not verbose at all and much safer. Biggest mistake people do is bringing bash idioms into python, like trying to pipe the output through head/cut/tail/grep/sed instead of just using string operators like endswith/in/startswith/re. If you do that then process managment will be more verbose, but it is in bash also unless you ignore decent error handling like $PIPEFAIL[0] which many many scripts actually do unknowingly. For those other 0.1% of the places where you actually need a pipe then just accept that you have to write 4 lines instead of 2, you will save thousands of lines in other places. For parallel running processes &, jobs, nohup and wait in bash isn't exactly convenient either if you are interested in the results, so there it's a tie vs POpen if i'm being generous.