Practical introduction to Python's subprocess module

We build a CLI tool utilizing Python's subprocess that, in one command, creates a directory to host our code, initialize git in it, creates the README and gitignore file, write content into the gitignore file, creates a virtual environment, start a task in our todo manager. So much value for personal / developer productivity, eh?

If you'd like to build beautiful CLI tools, watch my playlist:    • Building data tools with JUST python ...  

All videos in that playlist use Python's standard library with no / minimal dependencies. We walk through the process of building a CLI productivity tool on top of TaskWarrior. To learn more about TaskWarrior, watch my introduction video:
   • Taskwarrior: Terminal-based task mana...  

Timestamps for the impatient:
00:00 Intro: Automating our developer workflow
04:06 Understanding processes (w/ top and htop)
06:24 Python's subprocess module
16:18 Creating our project starter program with subprocess!

Learn how to use webbrowser instead of subprocess for browser-related automation / scripts in Python:
   • Automated research: Extracting compan...  
Alternatively, consider Selenium for web scraping or other browser automation task:    • Web (Scraping) Automation using Selen...