EasyProcess is an easy to use python subprocess interface.
- Links:
- home: https://github.com/ponty/EasyProcess
- documentation: http://ponty.github.com/EasyProcess
- Features:
- layer on top of subprocess module
- easy to start, stop programs
- easy to get standard output/error, return code of programs
- command can be list or string
- logging
- timeout
- unit-tests
- cross-platform, development on linux
- global config file with program aliases
- shell is not supported
- pipes are not supported
- stdout/stderr is set only after the subprocess has finished
- stop() does not kill whole subprocess tree
- unicode support
- supported python versions: 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
- Known problems:
- none
- Similar projects:
- execute (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/execute)
- commandwrapper (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/commandwrapper)
- extcmd (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/extcmd)
- sh (https://github.com/amoffat/sh)
- envoy (https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy)
- plumbum (https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum)
Basic usage
>>> from easyprocess import EasyProcess >>> EasyProcess('python --version').call().stderr u'Python 2.6.6'
Installation
General
install pip
install the program:
# as root pip install EasyProcess
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install EasyProcess
Uninstall
# as root pip uninstall EasyProcess