devnull = open('/dev/null', 'r+')
process = subprocess.Popen(q_args, stdin=devnull,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
- stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+ stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+ errors='replace')
try:
out, err = process.communicate()
signal.alarm(0)
- # fd is a text file, so we need to decode the process output before
- # writing to it.
- # We could be simply using the `errors` parameter of subprocess.Popen(),
- # but this will be possible only after migrating to Python 3
- fd.write(out.decode(errors='replace'))
- fd.write(err.decode(errors='replace'))
+ fd.write(out)
+ fd.write(err)
fd.flush()
return process.returncode