On 3/25/21 1:14 AM, Loris Bennett wrote: > Does any one have a better approach?
Not as such. Running a command and parsing its output is a relatively common task. Years ago I wrote my own simple python wrapper function that would make it easier to run a program with arguments, and capture its output. I ended up using that wrapper many times, which saved a lot of time. When it comes to converting a bash pipeline process to Python, it's worth considering that most of pipelines seem to involve parsing using sed or awk (as yours do), which is way easier to do from python without that kind of pipelining. However there is a fantastic article I read years ago about how generators are python's equivalent to a pipe. Anyone wanting to replace a bash script with python should read this: https://www.dabeaz.com/generators/Generators.pdf Also there's an interesting shell scripting language based on Python called xonsh which makes it much easier to interact with processes like bash does, but still leveraging Python to process the output. https://xon.sh/ . -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
