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Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

#1

Post by aeroxis » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 7:27 PM UTC

Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell
sultan.readthedocs.io

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

#2

Post by hultner » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 8:00 PM UTC

Very nice! I've been using somewhat similar sh[1] for the same purpose. It's nice seeing more alternatives.

[1]https://amoffat.github.io/sh/

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

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Post by Cynddl » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 8:33 PM UTC

There is also pyinfra [1], which provides the same sort of features for both local and remote devices, yet designed for consistent deployments and state diffing.

[1] https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

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Post by fnj » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 8:37 PM UTC

Xonsh is how to do this.

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

#5

Post by falsedan » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

Why not plumbum?

(I know why not to use plumbum)

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

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Post by noobiemcfoob » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 9:18 PM UTC

fnj wrote: post #4

Xonsh is how to do this.

Xonsh is a shell that integrates Python at the command line. This is a library to make calls to the command line.

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

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Post by fnj » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 9:32 PM UTC

noobiemcfoob wrote: post #6

fnj wrote: post #4

Xonsh is how to do this.

Xonsh is a shell that integrates Python at the command line. This is a library to make calls to the command line.

And your point is??

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

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Post by codewithcheese » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 9:45 PM UTC

falsedan wrote: post #5

Why not plumbum? (I know why not to use plumbum)

Thanks didn't know about plumbum.

What do you know?

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

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Post by brett40324 » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 9:46 PM UTC

Ive written numerous python wrappers around shell commands for all sorts of one off utils, but this is nice and flexible and generic. Sultan looks well thought out. Open to contributors?

Re: Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell

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Post by fermigier » Sun, Jun 11, 2017, 9:50 PM UTC

I've been using 'tentakel' for remote server admin for years, 'fabric' for lightweight deployment, and more recently 'invoke' for local invocations (all are Python projects).

This project looks interesting too, will give it a try.

BTW: Has anyone news on Fabric 2 ?