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The difference between "pretty easy" and "easy" changes everything. Compare from subprocess import call call(["ls", "-l"]) to `ls -l`

• bashinator 13y ago
  I really like the python sh library for stuff like this. Would you rather do what you wrote, or this? for listing in ls('-l'): '''etc''' Here's the library in question - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pbs https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pbs - it makes me super happy to do shell work in python.
  • CatMtKing 13y ago
    Wow, that's a neat library. You can just import any program and use it like a function (from sh import grep)! Thanks for the link. Also, sh documentation: http://amoffat.github.io/sh/ http://amoffat.github.io/sh/
    • mkarttic 13y ago
      i use Sh to interface with my cmus player. from sh import cmus_remote! :)
    • bashinator 13y ago
      Yeah, it's replaced just a ton of boilerplate `def run(*args):` functions wrapping Popen. I couldn't be happier.