Soldier is an Apache2 licensed library designed for executing and managing system processes with ease.
It is written on top of subprocess and has a much user-friendly and pythonic interface.
And the best part - it is very easy to get started
$ pip install soldier>>> import soldier
>>> print soldier.run('pwd').output
/home/python/
>>> firefox_process = soldier.run('firefox', background=True)
>>> firefox_process.pid
20749
>>> job = soldier.run('myjob', timeout=30)The documentation is available at soldier.readthedocs.io