Mini Shell

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Copyright (C) 2011 Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com>

# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your
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"""
    pyudev._compat
    ==============

    Compatibility for Python versions, that lack certain functions.

    .. moduleauthor::  Sebastian Wiesner  <lunaryorn@gmail.com>
"""


from __future__ import (print_function, division, unicode_literals,
                        absolute_import)

from subprocess import Popen, CalledProcessError, PIPE


def check_output(command):
    """
    Compatibility with :func:`subprocess.check_output` from Python 2.7 and
    upwards.
    """
    proc = Popen(command, stdout=PIPE)
    output = proc.communicate()[0]
    if proc.returncode != 0:
        raise CalledProcessError(proc.returncode, command)
    return output