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		ben509 on July 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Help Message for Shell Scripts Python is surprisingly bad at managing subprocesses, though. Read the subprocess docs closely, it's quite easy to get deadlocks if you try to compose operations the way you can in bash.

aflag on July 8, 2020 [–]

There are libraries that fix that: https://pypi.org/project/sh/ if you are in position to use external libraries.

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