On 12/05/2016 05:14 PM, Bernd Nawothnig wrote: > On 2016-12-05, Wildman wrote: >> And I am trying to write it without using external programs, where >> possible. > > That is not the Unix way. > >> I am a hobby programmer and I've been trying to learn python >> for a few months now. The program is 'worthlessware' but it >> is a 'learning experience' for me. > > It looks for me like a worthless learning experience. > >> A friend wrote a similar program in Bash script and I have been >> working on translating it to Python. > > Stay with shell script for such tasks. It is never a good idea to > choose the programming language before closer evaluating the problem.I
I think Python is a good choice for such a utility, but I agree it is much better to rely on these external utilities as children to do the platform-dependent work, rather than try to re-implement everything in Python. A long time ago I wrote a simple wrapper to Popen that would run a command and return the standard out and standard error to me. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
