Re: Using git from Python

From: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
Date: May 8, 2008, 03:54 UTC
Message-ID: <87lk2l4fj5.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0805071612510.26718@sf.creativecommons.org>

>>>>> "Asheesh" == Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org> writes:

    Asheesh> On #git, I was advised to simply call the git command
    Asheesh> suite.

That's what I'd do ...  (I wonder if it was me who so advised you :-)

    Asheesh> That's fine ... but since I figured others may have done
    Asheesh> this also

As far as I can tell, there is exactly no downside to simply forking a
subprocess.  Why are you trying to avoid that?
                      
    Asheesh> raises Exceptions when the git commands fail for some
    Asheesh> reason.

If Popen doesn't already raise an exception when the child process fails, then it's surely a simple matter to check the exit code, and raise the exception yourself.

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