Re: [Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-22 Thread Wayne Werner
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Abhishek Pratap wrote: Hi Guys I am  in the process of perl to python transition for good. Welcome! 1. stitch pipelines : I want python to act as a glue allowing me to run various linux shell based programs. If needed wait for a program to finish and then move on, logs if

Re: [Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-21 Thread Alan Gauld
On 21/03/12 18:03, Abhishek Pratap wrote: 1. stitch pipelines : I want python to act as a glue allowing me to run various linux shell based programs. If needed wait for a program to finish and then move on, logs if required Python by default reads/writes to stdin/stdout so you can do stuff lik

Re: [Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-21 Thread Steve Willoughby
On 21-Mar-12 11:03, Abhishek Pratap wrote: Hi Guys I am in the process of perl to python transition for good. I wanted to Why? Perl is still a perfectly good tool. Just not, IMHO, good for exactly the same things Python is good for. 1. stitch pipelines : I want python to act as a glue

Re: [Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-21 Thread Abhishek Pratap
Hi Steve I agree Steve perl is perfectly fine for the stuff I described but I am also interested trying alternatives. I am seeing quite interesting data handling stuff coming up in Python and I would like to try and sometimes as a programmer I dont like so many ways of doing the same things but it

[Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-21 Thread Abhishek Pratap
Hi Guys I am in the process of perl to python transition for good. I wanted to get some feedback or may be best practice for the following. 1. stitch pipelines : I want python to act as a glue allowing me to run various linux shell based programs. If needed wait for a program to finish and then