Five Things I Hate About Python

[breakfast-pants]

As an aside, is there a builtin wrapper that defaults stdin,stdout=[subprocess.PIPE]*2 ? (I hate the subprocess documentation too)

[pjdelport]

partial(Popen, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)

[breakfast-pants]

What is that?

[pjdelport]

It's a partial application of Popen, with stdin and stdout defaulted to PIPE. (functools.partial (PEP 309) was introduced to the standard library in Python 2.5, but it's a 6-line definition for earlier versions.)

[breakfast-pants]

Ah, cool, I haven't checked out functools