sh (previously pbs) is a full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python 2.6 - 3.4 that allows you to call any program as if it were a function:
from sh import ifconfig
print ifconfig("eth0")sh is not a collection of system commands implemented in Python.
Installation
$> pip install sh
Complete documentation @ http://amoffat.github.com/sh
Testing
First install the development requirements:
$> pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
Then use tox test runner:
$> tox
To run a single test for all environments:
$> tox FunctionalTests.test_unicode_arg
To run a single test for a single environment:
$> tox -e py34 FunctionalTests.test_unicode_arg