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

[Matt Dimmic]

Doug Hellmann's terrific Python Module of the Week series does that to me on
a regular basis. I only knew about pipes because he blogged about it last
month.

Regarding portability, since it's just calling system commands I assume it's
only as portable as those commands are.

-Matt

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:04 AM, James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ;)
>
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