reviewbot.utils.process¶

Utility functions for Process invocation and management.

Functions

execute(command, env=None, split_lines=False, ignore_errors=False, extra_ignore_errors=(), translate_newlines=True, with_errors=True, return_errors=False, none_on_ignored_error=False)[source]¶

Execute a command and return the output.

Parameters

• command (list of unicode) – The command to run.

• env (dict, optional) – The environment variables to use when running the process.

• split_lines (bool, optional) – Whether to return the output as a list (split on newlines) or a single string.

• ignore_errors (bool, optional) – Whether to ignore non-zero return codes from the command.

• extra_ignore_errors (tuple of int, optional) – Process return codes to ignore.

• translate_newlines (bool, optional) – Whether to convert platform-specific newlines (such as rn) to the regular newline (n) character.

• with_errors (bool, optional) – Whether the stderr output should be merged in with the stdout output or just ignored.

• return_errors (bool, optional) – Whether to return the content of the stderr stream. If set, this argument takes precedence over the with_errors argument.

• none_on_ignored_error (bool, optional) – Whether to return None if there was an ignored error (instead of the process output).

Returns

This returns a single value or 2-tuple, depending on the arguments.

If return_errors is True, this will return the standard output and standard errors as strings in a tuple. Otherwise, this will just result the standard output as a string.

If split_lines is True, those strings will instead be lists of lines (preserving newlines).

All resulting strings will be Unicode.

Return type

object

is_exe_in_path(name, cache={})[source]¶

Check whether an executable is in the user’s search path.

If the provided filename is an absolute path, it will be checked directly without looking in the search path.

Changed in version 3.0: Added the cache parameter.

Parameters

• name (unicode) – The name of the executable, without any platform-specific executable extension. The extension will be appended if necessary.

• cache (dict, optional) –

  A result cache, to avoid repeated lookups.

  This will store the paths to any files that are found (or None if not found).

  By default, the cache is shared across all calls. A custom cache can be provided instead.

Returns

True if the executable can be found in the execution path.

Return type

boolean