Best way to rewrite Popen

[Cecil Westerhof]

At the moment I am playing with things like:
    p = subprocess.Popen('ls -l', shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE)

I think that most of the times this are the values I want. So it would
be nice to overrule the defaults. What is the best way to do this? So
creating a function that is exactly the same except for the defaults
for shell and stdout (and maybe stderr).


It is a little less important as I first thought, because I found the
following:
    error, output = subprocess.getstatusoutput('ls -1')
    files_new = output.splitlines()
But it is still nice to know.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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