pc 0.0.1

process control -- easy fork-exec and pipe with I/O redirection

Latest Version: 0.0.3

Design goals:

• Easy to fork-exec commands, wait or no wait
• Easy to capture stdout/stderr of children (command substitution)
• Easy to express I/O redirections
• Easy to construct pipelines
• Use short names for easy interactive typing

In effect, make Python a sane alternative to non-trivial shell scripts.

Technically, pc.py is a layer on top of subprocess. The subprocess module support a rich API but is clumsy for many common use cases, namely sync/async fork-exec, command substitution and pipelining, all of which is trivial to do on system shells.

Documentation is at <http://github.com/aht/pc.py/>.

This module depends on Python 2.6, or where subprocess is available. Doctests require /bin/sh to pass. Tested on Linux.

This is an alpha release. Some features are unimplemented. Expect bugs.

• Author: Anh Hai Trinh
• Home Page: http://github.com/aht/pc.py
• Keywords: fork exec pipe IO redirection
• Platform: any
• Categories
  • Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
  • Intended Audience :: Developers
  • License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
  • Operating System :: OS Independent
  • Programming Language :: Python
  • Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
  • Topic :: Utilities
• Package Index Owner: aht
• DOAP record: pc-0.0.1.xml