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ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released.

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Sarge, a cross-platform library which wraps the subprocess module in
the standard library, has been released.

What does it do?
----------------

Sarge tries to make interfacing with external programs from your
Python applications easier than just using subprocess alone.

Sarge offers the following features:

* A simple way to run command lines which allows a rich subset of Bash-
style shell command syntax, but parsed and run by sarge so that you
can run on Windows without cygwin (subject to having those commands
available):

    >>> from sarge import capture_stdout
    >>> p = capture_stdout('echo foo | cat; echo bar')
    >>> for line in p.stdout: print(repr(line))
    ...
    'foo\n'
    'bar\n'

* The ability to format shell commands with placeholders, such that
variables are quoted to prevent shell injection attacks.

* The ability to capture output streams without requiring you to
program your own threads. You just use a Capture object and then you
can read from it as and when you want.

Advantages over subprocess
---------------------------

Sarge offers the following benefits compared to using subprocess:

* The API is very simple.

* It's easier to use command pipelines - using subprocess out of the
box often leads to deadlocks because pipe buffers get filled up.

* It would be nice to use Bash-style pipe syntax on Windows, but
Windows shells don't support some of the syntax which is useful, like
&&, ||, |& and so on. Sarge gives you that functionality on Windows,
without cygwin.

* Sometimes, subprocess.Popen.communicate() is not flexible enough for
one's needs - for example, when one needs to process output a line at
a time without buffering the entire output in memory.

* It's desirable to avoid shell injection problems by having the
ability to quote command arguments safely.

* subprocess allows you to let stderr be the same as stdout, but not
the other way around - and sometimes, you need to do that.

Python version and platform compatibility
-----------------------------------------

Sarge is intended to be used on any Python version >= 2.6 and is
tested on Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 on Linux,
Windows, and Mac OS X (not all versions are tested on all platforms,
but sarge is expected to work correctly on all these versions on all
these platforms).

Finding out more
----------------

You can read the documentation at

http://sarge.readthedocs.org/

There's a lot more information, with examples, than I can put into
this post.

You can install Sarge using "pip install sarge" to try it out. The
project is hosted on BitBucket at

https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/sarge/

And you can leave feedback on the issue tracker there.

I hope you find Sarge useful!

Regards,


Vinay Sajip

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ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-10 11:28 -0800
  Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Anh Hai Trinh <anh.hai.trinh@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 01:41 -0800
  Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Anh Hai Trinh <anh.hai.trinh@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 01:41 -0800
    Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-12 03:31 -0800
      Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Anh Hai Trinh <anh.hai.trinh@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 07:35 -0800
        Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Anh Hai Trinh <anh.hai.trinh@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 08:19 -0800
          Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-12 12:21 -0800
        Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-12 12:13 -0800
          Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Anh Hai Trinh <anh.hai.trinh@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 19:57 -0800
            Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-13 02:34 -0800
          Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 20:26 -0800
        Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 20:08 -0800
          Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Anh Hai Trinh <anh.hai.trinh@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 23:08 -0800
            Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-13 02:59 -0800
  Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-02-17 14:49 +0100
    Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-17 09:19 -0800
      Re: ANN: Sarge, a library wrapping the subprocess module, has been released. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-17 09:29 -0800

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