[taeric]

Apologies, I meant the equivalent of `os.popen` in python. You'd almost certainly only support a subset of what a shell actually supports, but that would almost certainly be for the best.

Basic point being that the equivalent of named/delimited parameters with pretty much forced support for escaping such that you have to go out of your way to send raw strings.

I think, bottom line, it bemuses me that the default "convenience" methods are almost always "send this string over to another process to evaluate it" instead of any processing locally on it. That feels it would be far better as the power "escape hatch" instead of the "convenience method" that it is often pitched as.