bumblebee-status/bumblebee_status/util/cli.py
Tobias Witek 92ab1a3e00 [util/cli] make sure language is set to "C"
to make parsing of CLI output reliable (i.e. always in english), set
LC_ALL accordingly.

see #662
2020-06-24 07:47:31 +02:00

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import os
import shlex
import subprocess
import logging
def execute(
cmd,
wait=True,
ignore_errors=False,
include_stderr=False,
env=None,
return_exitcode=False,
shell=False,
):
"""Executes a commandline utility and returns its output
:param cmd: the command (as string) to execute, returns the program's output
:param wait: set to True to wait for command completion, False to return immediately, defaults to True
:param ignore_errors: set to True to return a string when an exception is thrown, otherwise might throw, defaults to False
:param include_stderr: set to True to include stderr output in the return value, defaults to False
:param env: provide a dict here to specify a custom execution environment, defaults to None
:param return_exitcode: set to True to return a pair, where the first member is the exit code and the message the second, defaults to False
:param shell: set to True to run command in a separate shell, defaults to False
:raises RuntimeError: the command either didn't exist or didn't exit cleanly, and ignore_errors was set to False
:return: output of cmd, or stderr, if ignore_errors is True and the command failed; or a tuple of exitcode and the previous, if return_exitcode is set to True
:rtype: string or tuple (if return_exitcode is set to True)
"""
args = cmd if shell else shlex.split(cmd)
logging.debug(cmd)
if not env:
env = os.environ.copy()
env["LC_ALL"] = "C"
try:
proc = subprocess.Popen(
args,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT if include_stderr else subprocess.PIPE,
env=env,
shell=shell,
)
except FileNotFoundError as e:
raise RuntimeError("{} not found".format(cmd))
if wait:
out, _ = proc.communicate()
if proc.returncode != 0:
err = "{} exited with code {}".format(cmd, proc.returncode)
logging.warning(err)
if ignore_errors:
return (proc.returncode, err) if return_exitcode else err
raise RuntimeError(err)
res = out.decode("utf-8")
logging.debug(res)
return (proc.returncode, res) if return_exitcode else res
return (0, "") if return_exitcode else ""
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