Revive commands.dispatch as a simple way to call hg from other pythons scripts. This was already used by hg-ssh and others and is really convenient if you just want a native equivalent of calling the command line version.

#!/bin/sh

mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo "invalid" > .hg/hgrc
hg status 2>&1 |sed -e "s:/.*\(/t/.*\):...\1:"