Context manager for background command-line programs
Project description
Process Wrapper is a simple module that executes a command-line style program via a context manager. This is useful if you want your script to do something that relies on a background process.
This module is conceived because of a need to automate the setup and teardown of the Django server when running Robotframework tests. Sample usage would look like this:
#!/usr/bin/env python import robot from process_wrapper import run_process with run_process('python manage.py runserver'): robot.run('blackbox_test.robot')
Right now, the process being run is forcefully terminated with a SIGKILL or equivalent signal on context exit. Caution is advised.
To install
Run in command line:
pip install process-wrapper
Dependencies
psutil
For running tests
nose (for running tests conveniently, not essential)
mock
Thanks to
jung rhew for providing the basis of process teardown code that I used
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