> I feel like I'm reinventing a wheel here. I was wondering if there's already > something that exists?
I've wondered from time-to-time about using shell pipeline notation within Python. Maybe the grapevine package could be a starting point? I realize that's probably not precisely what you're looking for, but maybe it will give you some ideas. (I've never used it, just stumbled on it with a bit of poking around.) Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
