EasyProcess 0.0.8

Easy to use python subprocess interface.

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

• global config file with program aliases

Known problems:

• shell is not supported

• pipes are 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

• Python 3 is not supported

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