On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:48 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > The check_output() function of the subprocess module raises an > exception if the process returns a non-zero exit status. This is > inconvenient for commands such as grep that use the return > status to indicate something other than success or failure. > > The check_call() function has a companion call(), but here is > currently no non-checking companion for check_call(). How > about adding one with a signature such as > > output(args) --> (status, output)
Isn't this already available as: run(args, stdout=PIPE)? Is the object to the extra typing, or...? -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
