python-envoy

I'm trying to run this command through KennethReitz's Envoy package: $ sqlite3 foo.db 'select * from sqlite_master' I've tried this: r = envoy.run("sqlite3 foo.db 'select * from sqlite_master'") sqlite3: Error: too many options: "*" and this: r = envoy.run(['sqlite3', 'foo.db', 'select * from sqlite_master']) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'returncode' additional quoting & escaping doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions? FYI: This is what I had to do for now: cmd = "sqlite3 %(database)s 'select * from sqlite_master'" % locals() os.system(cmd) Note that this is a contrived

I'm using Python and Envoy. I need to delete all files in a directory. Apart from some files, the directory is empty. In a terminal this would be: rm /tmp/my_silly_directory/* Common sense dictates that in envoy, this translates into: r = envoy.run('rm /tmp/my_silly_directory/*') However: r.std_err -> "rm: cannot remove `/tmp/my_silly_directory/*': No such file or directory" Naturally there are alternatives to using envoy in this case, I am simply wondering why it doesn't work. Any clues? On UNIX, it's up to the shell to interpret wildcards like * . If you execute a program and pass an