http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/group-sequence/2011-06-03T02:14:18-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2011-06-03T02:14:18-07:00realityexistshttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4178189/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577733-get-additional-group-ids-for-unix-user-pwdgrp-modu/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577733 by <a href="/recipes/users/4178189/">realityexists</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/group/">group</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/linux/">linux</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/passwd/">passwd</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/security/">security</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unix/">unix</a>). </p> <p>The Python stdlib pwd module provides an easy way to get the primary group ID, but no way to get additional group IDs. This is a simple function that returns the additional group IDs for a given username.</p>

2008-07-29T07:11:17-07:00Pádraig Bradyhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1890175/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576387-unix-subprocess-wrapper/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576387 by <a href="/recipes/users/1890175/">Pádraig Brady</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/group/">group</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/popen/">popen</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/subprocess/">subprocess</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unix/">unix</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>I have used this for ages to control child processes (and all their children). Some of the existing subprocess module was based on this, but I find this simpler for my uses at least.</p> <h4>Example:</h4> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>import subProcess process = subProcess.subProcess("your shell command") process.read() #timeout is optional handle(process.outdata, process.errdata) del(process) </code></pre>