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Show HN: Pysh – run shell commands in Python

#1

Post by antiatheist » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 12:21 AM UTC

I was bored and tired of creating subprocess wrappers for lots of projects, so I made this.

The implementation is fairly naive and a bit slow, but it works well in my testing.

Might be a bit useless, but it was a fun and somewhat interesting project.

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Re: Show HN: Pysh – run shell commands in Python

#2

Post by billconan » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 12:32 AM UTC

if in the main python file, I include another python file that also contains shell commands, can Pysh parse the includes too?

Re: Show HN: Pysh – run shell commands in Python

#3

Post by antiatheist » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 12:36 AM UTC

billconan wrote: post #2

if in the main python file, I include another python file that also contains shell commands, can Pysh parse the includes too?

It's possible but I haven't tested it enough to iron out any kinks.

And right now the main routines are return-blocked by an environment variable (PYSH_ROOT) thats set when the first pysh wrapper is started.

Feel free to remove these and test how well it works for you.

EDIT: I might have misunderstood, if they're in an import they wont be parsed right now, you would need to run pysh() in there too. I haven't tested so I'm not sure how this will work.