Any way to execute a piped command in Python using subprocess module, without using shell=True?

Question

I want to run a piped command line linux/bash command from Python, which first tars files, and then splits the tar file. The command would look like something this in bash:<

Answer 1

tar can split itself:

tar -L 1000000 -F name-script.sh cf split.tar largefile1 largefile2 ...

name-script.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo "${TAR_ARCHIVE/_part*.tar/}"_part"${TAR_VOLUME}".tar >&"${TAR_FD}"

To re-assemble

tar -M -F name-script.sh cf split.tar

Add this to your python program.