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Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper

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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> Groupies:
>
> This is either a code snippet, if you like it, or a request for a
> critique, if you don't.
>
> I want to call a command and then treat the communication with that
> command as an object. And I want to do it as application-specifically
> as possible. Anyone could think of a way to productize this:
>
> def command(*cmdz):
>
>    process = Popen( flatten(cmdz),

flatten() being defined as...?

>                     shell= True,

I would strongly encourage you to avoid shell=True. You really don't
want to have to worry about doing proper shell escaping yourself.

>                     stdout= subprocess.PIPE,
>                     stderr= subprocess.PIPE,
>                     bufsize= 4096 )

Cheers,
Chris

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Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> - 2011-08-03 08:29 -0700
  Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-08-03 18:21 +0200
  Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 18:39 +0200
  Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-03 10:27 -0700
    Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-08-04 10:10 +0200
      Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-04 01:42 -0700
        Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-08-04 11:25 +0200
  Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> - 2011-08-03 11:04 -0700
  Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-03 16:20 -0400
  Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-08-04 10:24 +0200
  Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper Yves-Gwenael Bourhis <ybourhis@distroiwork4.com> - 2011-08-04 15:19 +0200

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