Write shell-like scripts in pure python (and never resort to writing bash scripts again!)
Plumbum provides local and remote process execution, path abstraction, lots of shell-like utilities and a command-line interface (CLI) application toolkit that beats optparse/argparse to the ground. Give it a try. http://plumbum.readthedocs.org/ >>> from plumbum.cmd import ls, grep, wc, cat, head >>> ls() u'build.py\ndist\ndocs\nLICENSE\nplumbum\nREADME.rst\nsetup.py\ntests\ntodo.txt\n' >>> (ls["-a"] | grep["-v", "\\.py"] | wc["-l"]) u'13\n' >>> ((cat["setup.py"] | head["-n", 4]) > "output.txt")() u'' >>> cat("output.txt") u'#!/usr/bin/env python\nimport os\n\ntry:\n' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
