subprocess.run 0.0.2

The subprocess extension to run processes.

>>> from subprocess import run

>>> print run('uname -r')
3.7.0-7-generic

>>> print run('uname -r').stdout
3.7.0-7-generic

>>> run('uname -a').status
0

>>> print run('rm not_existing_directory').stderr
rm: cannot remove `not_existing_directory': No such file or directory

>>> print run('ls -la', 'wc -l')
14

>>> print run('ls -la', 'wc -l', 'wc -c')
3

>>> run('ls -la', 'wc -l', 'wc -c')
ls -la | wc -l | wc -c

>>> print run('ls -la').stdout.lines
['total 20',
'drwxrwxr-x 3 user user 4096 Dec 20 22:55 .',
'drwxrwxr-x 5 user user 4096 Dec 20 22:57 ..',
'drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Dec 20 22:37 dir',
'-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Dec 20 22:52 file']

To use pipe from the shell.

from subprocess import run
run('grep something', data=run.stdin)

$ ps aux | python script.py

$ pip install subprocess.run

$ easy_install subprocess.run

>>> from subprocess import run

Tests

>>> python setup.py test