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Diffstat (limited to 'cloudinit/util.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | cloudinit/util.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/util.py b/cloudinit/util.py index 4504f053..823d80bf 100644 --- a/cloudinit/util.py +++ b/cloudinit/util.py @@ -1874,8 +1874,14 @@ def subp(args, data=None, rcs=None, env=None, capture=True, shell=False, # Popen converts entries in the arguments array from non-bytes to bytes. # When locale is unset it may use ascii for that encoding which can # cause UnicodeDecodeErrors. (LP: #1751051) - bytes_args = [x if isinstance(x, six.binary_type) else x.encode("utf-8") - for x in args] + if isinstance(args, six.binary_type): + bytes_args = args + elif isinstance(args, six.string_types): + bytes_args = args.encode("utf-8") + else: + bytes_args = [ + x if isinstance(x, six.binary_type) else x.encode("utf-8") + for x in args] try: sp = subprocess.Popen(bytes_args, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr, stdin=stdin, |