[Python-ideas] Interest in seeing sh.py in the stdlib

[Christian Tismer]

On 22.10.12 04:40, Andrew Moffat wrote:
> The main criticism has been the cleverness of the dynamic lookups. 
>  There is also the ability to use a Command object for more explicit 
> calls:
>
> cmd = sh.Command("/some/command")
> cmd(arg)
>
> So you have the best of both worlds.  If you like the idea of the 
> programs being attributes on the module, you can use the advertised 
> way, if you don't, you can use the more explicit way.
>
> Windows support would be a little more difficult.  It existed in an 
> old version of sh, when it was merely a wrapper around the subprocess 
> module.  Now that sh.py no longer relies on the subprocess module and 
> does fork-exec itself (in order to get more flexible access to the 
> processes), Windows is currently unsupported.  My current 
> understanding is that most of the value comes from the linux/OSX 
> folks, but Windows support is scheduled for the future.
>

This is what I don't like:

subprocess is not used, but you implement stuff yourself.
Instead of bypassing subprocess I would improve subprocess
and not duplicate the windows problem, which is most of the
time _not_ easy to get right.

Can you explain why you went this path?

cheers - chris

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