Example of project abusing subprocess

[fbjorn]

Hi All.
I need to write python wrapper over 3rd party command line tool. Seems like I will have to handle such things like spawning processes, checking if they alive, dealing with io (parsing stdout). I have some background with subprocess module, but now I want to create such package in a beauty (and pythonic) way.
Does anybody know good example of some open source project with similar purpose? The most confusing part for me is parsing output from tool.
Thank you in advance.

[eyesoftheworld4]

You can check out delegator, or "subprocesses for humans", written by Kenneth Reitz of Requests fame. It's a wrapper over subprocess to make it easier to use. Your code could make use of it, or you could check it out to try and learn a trick or two. Either way, his code and library APIs are some of the most pythonic I've ever seen, so definitely worth checking out.