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Executing interactive subprocesses as "actions"

Asked by Alexey Zakhlestin

Is there some official way to run interactive subprocess as action?

For example, I'd like to run "ipython" as one of the actions after setting up proper debugging environment.

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schettino72 (schettino72) said : 		#1

Hi Alexey,

Currently there is no "official way" of doing this, but it should have one. So I created a bug to track this.

I dont know of any implementation of this. It should be easy to do... If you want to give it a try please assign the bug to yourself so we can add this to doit :)

cheers

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Alexey Zakhlestin (indeyets) said : 		#2

in my script, I just used something like this, for now:

        import subprocess
        subprocess.call([PATH_TO_IPYTHON], stdout=None, stderr=None, env=method_which_returns_custom_env())

I am not ready to dive into doit's internals right now. I'll get to it later, if noone else gets there first :)

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schettino72 (schettino72) said : 		#3

ok. JFYI you actually don't need to dive into doit's internals to implement this.

I guess you can implement it with 10 lines of code if you subclass doit/actions.py:CmdAction. My implementation based on PythonAction was 4 lines of code :) (http://pastebin.com/zFMmmECA)

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schettino72 (schettino72) said : 		#4

http://python-doit.sourceforge.net/tools.html#interactiveaction-action

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