[elbe-devel] [PATCH v4 1/1] Python3: fix encoding for both py2 and py3

[Olivier Dion]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2020, Bastian Germann <bage at linutronix.de> wrote:
> Am 14.02.20 um 18:06 schrieb Olivier Dion: 
>>> get_command_out("dpkg --print-architecture").strip().decode()  
>>  Maybe do the decoding directly in 'get_command_out' on the 
>> 'stdout' object in shellhelper.py. 
> 
> This will have side effects on all the other get_command_out 
> calls. I think we should delay such changes to after dropping 
> py2 completely.

Afterthought I agree with that.  Even though we use 
get_command_out only around 3 times.  It's safer to asume that the 
output is not always utf-8.

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Olivier Dion
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