I'd like to announce an early release of pc.py. pc.py is a layer on top of subprocess. The subprocess module supports a rich API but is clumsy for many common use cases, namely sync/async fork-exec, command substitution and pipelining, all of which is trivial to do on system shells.
The goal is to make Python a sane alternative to non-trivial shell scripts. Features: * Easy to fork-exec commands, wait or no wait * Easy to capture stdout/stderr of children (command substitution) * Easy to express I/O redirections * Easy to construct pipelines * Use short names for easy interactive typing Documentation is at <http://github.com/aht/pc.py/>. This module depends on Python 2.6, or where subprocess is available. Doctests require /bin/sh to pass. Tested on Linux. This is an alpha release. Expect bugs. -- @chickamade -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
