[bip] replacing those shell scripts ... the PipeChain

[James Casbon]

2009/5/7 Matt Dimmic <reg at plaguerats.net>:
> Are you familiar with the pipes module in the Python standard library? I
> don't have experience with it myself, but it seems to smooth out the bumps
> you mention:

I'm feeling a bit ashamed now...  I thought I knew the standard library!

I'm wondering how portable it is - it just calls os.system.  Mine is
probably not much better ;)