[onyb]

This seems to be a simple wrapper around subprocess, but I'm afraid it is not changing things dramatically. Overall, I don't agree that Sultan's syntax is any more Pythonic than subprocess itself.

+1 for https://sultan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sultan-examples.html...

I think it would be interesting if you could iterate on the results of "ls -l", where each row is represented by an object.

[aeroxis]

Representing each row as an object works, but it ends up having us write custom objects for different result types. When you run Sultan().ls('-l'), you will get back a list of Strings, which you can freely use in Python for your specific needs (like use a Regex to fetch date/times or file size). I felt like this offers developers the best flexibility, rather than trying to customize each output (which will definitely make the codebase very confusing)

[friendzis]

And then I remember that Windows PowerShell does (attempts to, to be fair) exactly that

[stinos]

attempts to, to be fair

Output of ls in PS is an Array of objects (DirectoryInfo or FileInfo instances). How is that merely an attempt?

[friendzis]

While PS-native stuff yield objects, not all pre-PS utilities/builtins are overriden or have interface for PS and output old fashioned text blob, which is not automagically parsed in any way by PS. My comment was system-level, not utility-level.