Soldier: Subprocess with Style

Soldier is an Apache2 licensed library designed for executing and managing system processes with ease.

It is written on top of subprocess and has a much user-friendly and pythonic interface.

And the best part - it is very easy to get started

Installation

$ pip install soldier

Getting Started

>>> import soldier

>>> print soldier.run('pwd').output
/home/python/

>>> firefox_process = soldier.run('firefox', background=True)
>>> firefox_process.pid
20749

>>> job = soldier.run('myjob', timeout=30)

Documentation

The documentation is available at soldier.readthedocs.io