nmbug-status: Decode Popen output using the user's locale

Avoid:

  $ ./nmbug-status --list-views
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "./nmbug-status", line 47, in <module>
      'cat-file', 'blob', sha1+':status-config.json'],
  TypeError: can't concat bytes to str

by explicitly converting the byte-stream read from Popen into a
Unicode string.  On Python 2, this conversion is str -> unicode; on
Python 3 it is bytes -> str.

_ENCODING is derived from the user's locale (or system default) in an
attempt to match Git's output encoding.  It may be more robust to skip
the encoding/decoding by using a Python wrapper like pygit2 [1] for
Git access.  That's a fairly heavy dependency though, and using the
locale will probably work.

[1]: http://www.pygit2.org/

diff --git a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
index 6525176478d2155d274f63184d3c3057b8ace25e..a7a391da43a38980b03c6c44d37cec8eb689be79 100755 (executable)
--- a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
+++ b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 
+import codecs
 import datetime
 import email.utils
+import locale
 import urllib
 import json
 import argparse
@@ -17,6 +19,10 @@ import os
 import sys
 import subprocess
 
+
+_ENCODING = locale.getpreferredencoding() or sys.getdefaultencoding()
+
+
 # parse command line arguments
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -37,15 +43,16 @@ else:
     nmbhome = os.getenv('NMBGIT', os.path.expanduser('~/.nmbug'))
 
     # read only the first line from the pipe
-    sha1 = subprocess.Popen(['git', '--git-dir', nmbhome,
-                             'show-ref', '-s', 'config'],
-                            stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.readline()
-
-    sha1 = sha1.rstrip()
-
-    fp = subprocess.Popen(['git', '--git-dir', nmbhome,
-                           'cat-file', 'blob', sha1+':status-config.json'],
-                          stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
+    sha1_bytes = subprocess.Popen(
+        ['git', '--git-dir', nmbhome, 'show-ref', '-s', 'config'],
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.readline()
+    sha1 = sha1_bytes.decode(_ENCODING).rstrip()
+
+    fp_byte_stream = subprocess.Popen(
+        ['git', '--git-dir', nmbhome, 'cat-file', 'blob',
+         sha1+':status-config.json'],
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
+    fp = codecs.getreader(encoding=_ENCODING)(stream=fp_byte_stream)
 
 config = json.load(fp)