Wrap a function

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:24:28 -0800 (PST), Joan Miller
> <peloko45 at gmail.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> > On 28 ene, 19:16, Josh Holland <j... at joshh.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On 2010-01-28, Joan Miller <pelok... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've to call to many functions with the format:
> > >
> > > >>>> run("cmd")
> > >
> > > Check the docs on os.system().
> > No. I've a function that uses subprocess to run commands on the same
> > shell and so substitute to bash scrips. But a script full of run
> > ("shell_command --with --arguments") is too verbose.
>
>        I shall blaspheme, and suggest that maybe the language you want to
> use is REXX (ooREXX or Regina).

Sounds like the REXX designers already got the blaspheming covered
when they came up with such an inelegant-sounding feature...

>        By default, ANY statement that can not be confused for a REXX
> language statement is sent to the currently defined command handler
> (Which on most OSs is equivalent to Python's os.system() call; the late
> Amiga, and IBM's mainframe OS had features that support defining other
> applications as command handlers).
>
>        A common practice is to put quotes about the first word of the
> command to ensure it gets treated as external command.

Cheers,
Chris
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