About

EasyProcess is an easy to use python subprocess interface.

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/EasyProcess
• documentation: http://ponty.github.com/EasyProcess

Features:

• layer on top of subprocess module
• easy to start, stop programs
• easy to get standard output/error, return code of programs
• command can be list or string
• logging
• timeout
• unit-tests
• cross-platform, development on linux
• global config file with program aliases
• shell is not supported
• pipes are not supported
• stdout/stderr is set only after the subprocess has finished
• stop() does not kill whole subprocess tree
• unicode support
• supported python versions: 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, PyPy

Known problems:

• none

Similar projects:

• execute (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/execute)
• commandwrapper (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/commandwrapper)
• extcmd (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/extcmd)
• sh (https://github.com/amoffat/sh)
• envoy (https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy)
• plumbum (https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum)

Basic usage

>>> from easyprocess import EasyProcess
>>> EasyProcess('python --version').call().stderr
u'Python 2.6.6'

Installation

General

• install pip

• install the program:

  # as root
  pip install EasyProcess

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install EasyProcess

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall EasyProcess