Python 2.7 Compatibility

Subprocess from Python 2.7

The subprocess module included here is a direct import from python-2.7’s python standard library. You can access it via:

>>> from kitchen.pycompat27 import subprocess

The motivation for including this module is that various API changing improvements have been made to subprocess over time. The following is a list of the known changes to subprocess with the python version they were introduced in:

New API Feature

Ver

subprocess.CalledProcessError

2.5

subprocess.check_call()

2.5

subprocess.check_output()

2.7

subprocess.Popen.send_signal()

2.6

subprocess.Popen.terminate()

2.6

subprocess.Popen.kill()

2.6

See also

The stdlib subprocess documenation

For complete documentation on how to use subprocess