import binascii import shlex import subprocess def get_command_output(command): try: return subprocess.check_output( command, shell=True, universal_newlines=True ).rstrip() except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: return e.output def bitcast_to_string(b: bytes) -> str: """ Take a bytes object and return a string. The returned string contains the exact same bytes as the input object. (latin1 <-> unicode transformation is an identity operation for the first 256 code points). """ return b.decode("latin1") def bitcast_to_bytes(s: str) -> bytes: """ Take a string and return a bytes object. The returned object contains the exact same bytes as the input string. (latin1 <-> unicode transformation isi an identity operation for the first 256 code points). """ return s.encode("latin1") def unhexlify(hexstr): """Hex-decode a string. The result is always a string.""" return bitcast_to_string(binascii.unhexlify(hexstr)) def hexlify(data): """Hex-encode string data. The result if always a string.""" return bitcast_to_string(binascii.hexlify(bitcast_to_bytes(data))) # TODO: Replace this with `shlex.join` when minimum Python version is >= 3.8 def join_for_shell(split_command): return " ".join([shlex.quote(part) for part in split_command])