EasyProcess 0.1.2

Easy to use python subprocess interface.

EasyProcess is an easy to use python subprocess interface.

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/EasyProcess

• documentation: http://ponty.github.com/EasyProcess

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

• unit-tests

• crossplatform, development on linux

• global config file with program aliases

• shell is not supported

• pipes are not supported

• stdout/stderr is set only after the subprocess has finished

• stop() does not kill whole subprocess tree

Known problems:

• Python 3 is not supported

Similar projects:

• execute (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/execute)

• commandwrapper (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/commandwrapper)

• extcmd (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/extcmd)

Basic usage

>>> from easyprocess import EasyProcess
>>> EasyProcess('python --version').call().stderr
'Python 2.6.6'

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