Easy to use python subprocess interface.
Project description
EasyProcess is an easy to use python subprocess interface.
home: https://github.com/ponty/EasyProcess
html documentation: http://ponty.github.com/EasyProcess
pdf documentation: https://github.com/ponty/EasyProcess/raw/master/docs/_build/latex/EasyProcess.pdf
- Features:
layer on top of subprocess module
easy to start, stop programs
easy to get standard output/error, return code of programs
command can be list or string
logging
timeout
unittests
crossplatform, development on linux
- Known problems:
shell is not supported
large stdout/stderr was not tested, maybe not efficent
stdout/stderr is set only after the subprocess has finished
stop() does not kill whole subprocess tree
Basic usage
>>> from easyprocess import EasyProcess >>> EasyProcess('echo hello').call().stdout 'hello'
Installation
General
install setuptools or pip
install the program:
if you have setuptools installed:
# as root easy_install EasyProcess
if you have pip installed:
# as root pip install EasyProcess
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo easy_install EasyProcess
Uninstall
# as root pip uninstall EasyProcess
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