pcdsutils.ext_scripts.call_script

pcdsutils.ext_scripts.call_script(args, timeout=None, ignore_return_code=False)

Helper script for external script error handling and logging.

Parameters:

argslist of str

The script name and arguments. See subprocess.check_output.

timeoutint or float, optional

The time to wait before marking the script call as failed. If omitted, we wait forever.

ignore_return_codebool, optional

Defaults to False. If True, we’ll ignore the return code and return the output anyway, even though the script failed.

Returns:

outputstr

String output from the script call. This is a single string with lines separated by newline characters.