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Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper

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Date 2011-08-03 11:04 -0700
Subject Re: Snippet: The leanest Popen wrapper
From Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1858.1312394695.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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> flatten() being defined as...?

Python Cookbook recipe 4.6

def flatten(sequence):  #  CONSIDER:  Reconcile with utils...
    for item in sequence:
        if isinstance(item, (list, tuple)):
            for subitem in flatten(list(item)):
                yield subitem
        else:
            yield item

>>                     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.

Tx for helping me avoid reading up on it. I just copied it in.

I keep getting "fab not found" etc. when running 'fab command' thru
it. So then I ditch to os.system().

The long-term solution would be 'bash', '-c', 'yack yack yack' if you
want truly shelly things!

-- 
  Phlip
  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand

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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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