bumblebee-status/util/cli.py
2020-05-05 19:55:37 +02:00

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Python

import os
import shlex
import subprocess
import logging
def execute(cmd, wait=True, ignore_errors=False, include_stderr=False, env=None):
"""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
: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
:rtype: string
"""
args = shlex.split(cmd)
logging.debug(cmd)
try:
proc = subprocess.Popen(
args,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT if include_stderr else subprocess.PIPE,
env=env,
)
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)
if ignore_errors:
return err
raise RuntimeError(err)
return out.decode("utf-8")
return ""
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