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# numpy.distutils.exec_command

exec_command

Implements exec_command function that is (almost) equivalent to commands.getstatusoutput function but on NT, DOS systems the returned status is actually correct (though, the returned status values may be different by a factor). In addition, exec_command takes keyword arguments for (re-)defining environment variables.

Provides functions:
  exec_command — execute command in a specified directory and
    in the modified environment.
  find_executable — locate a command using info from environment
    variable PATH. Equivalent to posix which command.

Author: Pearu Peterson <pearu@cens.ioc.ee> Created: 11 January 2003

Requires: Python 2.x

Succesfully tested on:

  os.name | sys.platform | comments ——–+————–+———- posix | linux2 | Debian (sid) Linux, Python 2.1.3+, 2.2.3+, 2.3.3

  > PyCrust 0.9.3, Idle 1.0.2

  posix | linux2 | Red Hat 9 Linux, Python 2.1.3, 2.2.2, 2.3.2 posix | sunos5 | SunOS 5.9, Python 2.2, 2.3.2 posix | darwin | Darwin 7.2.0, Python 2.3 nt | win32 | Windows Me

  > Python 2.3(EE), Idle 1.0, PyCrust 0.7.2 Python 2.1.1 Idle 0.8

  nt | win32 | Windows 98, Python 2.1.1. Idle 0.8 nt | win32 | Cygwin 98-4.10, Python 2.1.1(MSC) - echo tests

  > fail i.e. redefining environment variables may not work. FIXED: don’t use cygwin echo! Comment: also cmd /c echo will not work but redefining environment variables do work.

  posix | cygwin | Cygwin 98-4.10, Python 2.3.3(cygming special) nt | win32 | Windows XP, Python 2.3.3

Known bugs: - Tests, that send messages to stderr, fail when executed from MSYS prompt

> because the messages are lost at some point.

Functions

`exec_command`(command[, execute_in, ...]) | Return (status,output) of executed command.
`find_executable`(exe[, path, _cache]) | Return full path of a executable or None.
`get_exception`() |
`get_pythonexe`() |
`is_sequence`(seq) |
`make_temp_file`([suffix, prefix, text]) |
`open_latin1`(filename[, mode]) |
`quote_arg`(arg) |
`splitcmdline`(line) |
`temp_file_name`() |
`test`(**kws) |
`test_cl`(**kws) |
`test_execute_in`(**kws) |
`test_nt`(**kws) |
`test_posix`(**kws) |
`test_svn`(**kws) |