Transparent Python call to a binary that has fancy terminal output

Question

I'm writing a Python script, and would like to transparently present my call to kind cluster create (kubernetes-in-docker) in a terminal that runs this Python script.

I have been using Python's subprocess.check_output until I realized that wrapping the call like that hid a lot of output.

Is there from the Python script, to invoke kind create cluster as if I'd been calling it directly from the command line without invoking it from a python script?

If we can make Python do this, it would have to:

To stream the output
To get output that can updates like the animated dots
To get the emoji images represented as well

`kind create cluster` running in a bash terminal

First I would try `kind create cluster | less` to see if it turns off fancy stuff when output is not a terminal. — Paulo Scardine, Oct 07 '19 at 15:27
Possible duplicate of [Python terminal emulation](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6070998/python-terminal-emulation) — ivan_pozdeev, Oct 07 '19 at 15:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '19 at 19:12

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I learned that I simply wanted to start using subprocess.run(cmd), that gave me everything I wanted.

It allowed my ./my-python-script.py to run code within it that resulted in everything I wanted to see, such as colors, animated dots, emojis.

answered Oct 07 '19 at 19:12

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Transparent Python call to a binary that has fancy terminal output

kind create cluster running in a bash terminal

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`kind create cluster` running in a bash terminal