from subprocess import run

The subprocess extension to run processes.

>>> from subprocess import run

>>> run('uname -r').stdout
3.7.0-7-generic

>>> run('uname -a').status
0

>>> print run('rm not_existing_directory').stderr
rm: cannot remove `not_existing_directory': No such file or directory

>>> print run('ls -la', 'wc -l')
14

To use pipe from the shell.

from subprocess import run
run('grep something', data=run.stdin)

$ ps aux | python script.py

Install

You can install it from PyPi, by simply pip:

$ pip install subprocess.run

to test it, launch python

>>> from subprocess import run

Supported platforms

• Python2.6
• Python2.7
• Python3.3
• PyPy2.1

Tests

>>> python setup.py test