The Python snippet that obviated Bash forever

no_more_bash.py

import subprocess
from collections import namedtuple


CallResult = namedtuple('CallResult', 'code,output')


def call(cmd):
    try:
        return CallResult(0, subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True))
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
        return CallResult(e.returncode, e.output)