Common scripty helpers in Python

executil.py

import sys
import os
import contextlib
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE


def die(message, error_code=1):
    print message
    sys.exit(error_code)


def system(command, print_command=False):
    "Run a command, returning the exit code and output."
    if print_command: print command
    p = Popen(command)
    return p.returncode


def run(command, print_command=False):
    "Run a command, returning the exit code and output."
    if print_command: print command
    p = Popen(command, stdout=PIPE)
    output, errput = p.communicate()
    return p.returncode, output
    

def run2(command, print_command=False):
    "Run a command, returning the exit code, output, and stderr."
    p = Popen(command, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    if print_command: print command
    output, errput = p.communicate()
    return p.returncode, output, errput


@contextlib.contextmanager
def working_folder(path):
    """Change the local current directory within a with block."""
    last_folder = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(path)
    yield path
    os.chdir(last_folder)