[wellylug] Help in finding a good technical/Linux related bookstore

[Andrej]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 19:58, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> I frequently code my "shell scripts" in Python nowadays.  That
> way there is only one invocation of Python so I only pay the
> startup cost once, and the resulting script can be a bit more
> transparent.  Python's subprocess module lets me deal with
> invoking subtasks and dealing with their I/O and inevitable
> error conditions in readable ways.
Got my attention:  how does that work?  If you run a task 
scheduled via cron - how does that interact with the python
sub-process module?  Not that I'm a big fan of OO for simple
tasks to begin with, mind you. ;}


Cheers,
Andrej

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