Module: utils.process¶
Utilities for working with external processes.
4 Functions¶
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IPython.utils.process.find_cmd(cmd)¶ Find absolute path to executable cmd in a cross platform manner.
This function tries to determine the full path to a command line program using
whichon Unix/Linux/OS X andwin32apion Windows. Most of the time it will use the version that is first on the usersPATH.Warning, don’t use this to find IPython command line programs as there is a risk you will find the wrong one. Instead find those using the following code and looking for the application itself:
from IPython.utils.path import get_ipython_module_path from IPython.utils.process import pycmd2argv argv = pycmd2argv(get_ipython_module_path('IPython.terminal.ipapp'))
Parameters: cmd (str) – The command line program to look for.
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IPython.utils.process.is_cmd_found(cmd)¶ Check whether executable
cmdexists or not and return a bool.
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IPython.utils.process.pycmd2argv(cmd)¶ Take the path of a python command and return a list (argv-style).
This only works on Python based command line programs and will find the location of the
pythonexecutable usingsys.executableto make sure the right version is used.For a given path
cmd, this returns [cmd] if cmd’s extension is .exe, .com or .bat, and [, cmd] otherwise.Parameters: cmd (string) – The path of the command. Returns: Return type: argv-style list.
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IPython.utils.process.abbrev_cwd()¶ Return abbreviated version of cwd, e.g. d:mydir