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The subprocess module extension to run processes.

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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

Install

You can install it from PyPi, by simply pip:

$ pip install subprocess.run

only if you don’t have pip installed, an alternative method is easy_install:

$ easy_install subprocess.run

to test it, launch python

>>> from subprocess import run

Supported platforms

  • Python2.6

  • Python2.7

  • Python3.3

  • PyPy1.9

Tests

https://api.travis-ci.org/xando/suprocess.run.png?branch=master
>>> python setup.py test

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