Question

I have been asked to write a script that pulls the latest code from Git, makes a build, and performs some automated unit tests.

I found that there are two built-in Python modules for interacting with Git that are readily available: GitPython and libgit2.

What approach/module should I use?

Answer 1

An easier solution would be to use the Python subprocess module to call git. In your case, this would pull the latest code and build:

import subprocess
subprocess.call(["git", "pull"])
subprocess.call(["make"])
subprocess.call(["make", "test"])

Docs:

• subprocess – Python 2.x
• subprocess – Python 3.x