procrunner 2.1.0

Versatile utility function to run external processes

ProcRunner

Versatile utility function to run external processes

• Free software: BSD license

• Documentation: https://procrunner.readthedocs.io.

Features

• runs an external process and waits for it to finish

• does not deadlock, no matter the process stdout/stderr output behaviour

• returns the exit code, stdout, stderr (separately, both as bytestrings), and the total process runtime as a dictionary

• process can run in a custom environment, either as a modification of the current environment or in a new environment from scratch

• stdin can be fed to the process, the returned dictionary contains information how much was read by the process

• stdout and stderr is printed by default, can be disabled

• stdout and stderr can be passed to any arbitrary function for live processing (separately, both as unicode strings)

• optionally enforces a time limit on the process, raising a subprocess.TimeoutExpired exception if it is exceeded.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

2.1.0 (2020-09-05)

• Deprecated array access on the return object (#60). The return object will become a subprocess.CompletedProcess in a future release, which no longer allows array-based access. For a translation table of array elements to attributes please see the pull request linked above.

• Add a new parameter ‘raise_timeout_exceptions’ (#61). When set to ‘True’ a subprocess.TimeoutExpired exception is raised when the process runtime exceeds the timeout threshold. This defaults to ‘False’ and will be set to ‘True’ in a future release.

• Final version supporting Python 3.5

2.0.0 (2020-06-24)

• Python 3.5+ only, support for Python 2.7 has been dropped

• Deprecated function alias run_process() has been removed

• Fixed a stability issue on Windows

1.1.0 (2019-11-04)

• Add Python 3.8 support, drop Python 3.4 support

1.0.2 (2019-05-20)

• Stop environment override variables leaking into the process environment

1.0.1 (2019-04-16)

• Minor fixes on the return object (implement equality, mark as unhashable)

1.0.0 (2019-03-25)

• Support file system path objects (PEP-519) in arguments

• Change the return object to make it similar to subprocess.CompletedProcess, introduced with Python 3.5+

0.9.1 (2019-02-22)

• Have deprecation warnings point to correct code locations

0.9.0 (2018-12-07)

• Trap UnicodeEncodeError when printing output. Offending characters are replaced and a warning is logged once. Hints at incorrectly set PYTHONIOENCODING.

0.8.1 (2018-12-04)

• Fix a few deprecation warnings

0.8.0 (2018-10-09)

• Add parameter working_directory to set the working directory of the subprocess

0.7.2 (2018-10-05)

• Officially support Python 3.7

0.7.1 (2018-09-03)

• Accept environment variable overriding with numeric values.

0.7.0 (2018-05-13)

• Unicode fixes. Fix crash on invalid UTF-8 input.

• Clarify that stdout/stderr values are returned as bytestrings.

• Callbacks receive the data decoded as UTF-8 unicode strings with unknown characters replaced by ufffd (unicode replacement character). Same applies to printing of output.

• Mark stdin broken on Windows.

0.6.1 (2018-05-02)

• Maintenance release to add some tests for executable resolution.

0.6.0 (2018-05-02)

• Fix Win32 API executable resolution for commands containing a dot (‘.’) in addition to a file extension (say ‘.bat’).

0.5.1 (2018-04-27)

• Fix Win32API dependency installation on Windows.

0.5.0 (2018-04-26)

• New keyword ‘win32resolve’ which only takes effect on Windows and is enabled by default. This causes procrunner to call the Win32 API FindExecutable() function to try and lookup non-.exe files with the corresponding name. This means .bat/.cmd/etc.. files can now be run without explicitly specifying their extension. Only supported on Python 2.7 and 3.5+.

0.4.0 (2018-04-23)

• Python 2.7 support on Windows. Python3 not yet supported on Windows.

0.3.0 (2018-04-17)

• run_process() renamed to run()

• Python3 compatibility fixes

0.2.0 (2018-03-12)

• Procrunner is now Python3 3.3-3.6 compatible.

0.1.0 (2018-03-12)

• First release on PyPI.