[Python-Dev] Interest in seeing sh.py in the stdlib (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sun Oct 21 16:28:49 CEST 2012

On 10/20/2012 11:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2012/10/20 Andrew Moffat <andrew.robert.moffat at gmail.com>:

Hi,

I'm the author of sh.py, a subprocess module rewrite for Linux and OSX. It serves as a powerful and intuitive interface to launching subprocesses http://amoffat.github.com/sh/. It has been maintained on github https://github.com/amoffat/sh for about 10 months and currently has about 25k installs, according to pythonpackages.com. Andy Grover maintains the Fedora rpm for sh.py http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=94247 and Nick Moffit has submitted an older version of sh.py (which was called pbs) to be included in Debian distros http://pkgs.org/debian-wheezy/debian-main-i386/python-pbs0.95-1all.deb.html I'm interested in making sh.py more accessible to help bring Python forward in the area of shell scripting, so I'm interested in seeing if sh would be suitable for the standard library. Is there any other interest in something like this? You should try the python-ideas list.

In addition, let me say upfront that while the library looks very nice at a glance, its behavior is much too magical to be included as a standard library IMO.

cheers, Georg

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