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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):
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0process =3D Popen( flatten(cmdz),

flatten() being defined as...?

> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 she=
ll=3D True,

I would strongly encourage you to avoid shell=3DTrue. You really don't
want to have to worry about doing proper shell escaping yourself.

> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 std=
out=3D subprocess.PIPE,
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 std=
err=3D subprocess.PIPE,
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 buf=
size=3D 4096 )

Cheers,
Chris