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1 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
4 # Copyright (C) 2011 Jörg Lehmann <joergl@users.sourceforge.net>
5 # Copyright (C) 2011 André Wobst <wobsta@users.sourceforge.net>
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23 class _marker: pass
25 def popen(cmd, mode="r", bufsize=_marker):
26 try:
27 import subprocess
28 if mode[0] not in "rw" or "r" in mode[1:] or "w" in mode[1:]:
29 raise ValueError("read or write mode expected")
30 if mode[0] == "r":
31 kwargs = {"stdout": subprocess.PIPE}
32 else:
33 kwargs = {"stdin": subprocess.PIPE}
34 if bufsize is not _marker:
35 kwargs["bufsize"] = bufsize
36 pipes = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, **kwargs)
37 if mode[0] == "r":
38 return pipes.stdout
39 else:
40 return pipes.stdin
41 except ImportError:
42 import os
43 if bufsize is _marker:
44 return os.popen(cmd, mode)
45 else:
46 return os.popen(cmd, mode, bufsize)
48 try:
49 any = any
50 except NameError:
51 def any(iterable):
52 for element in iterable:
53 if element:
54 return True
55 return False
57 try:
58 set = set
59 except NameError:
60 # Python 2.3
61 from sets import Set as set