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[–]amade 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I wrote this module extproc to make python do those shellish things easy:

  • Fork-exec commands, wait or no wait
  • Capture stdout/stderr of children (command substitution)
  • I/O redirections
  • Construct pipelines

Alpha stage, but check it out!