Merge pull request #164 from harvardinformatics/master

Convert the proc output from bytes to strings
nickjcroucher · Apr 12, 2016 · 88c91d2 · 88c91d2
2 parents fe094b0 + 74de8b9
commit 88c91d2
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diff --git a/python/gubbins/common.py b/python/gubbins/common.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def does_file_exist(alignment_filename, file_type_msg):
  def choose_executable(list_of_executables):
  flags = []
  if os.path.exists('/proc/cpuinfo'):
- output = subprocess.Popen('grep flags /proc/cpuinfo', stdout = subprocess.PIPE, shell=True).communicate()[0]
+ output = subprocess.Popen('grep flags /proc/cpuinfo', stdout = subprocess.PIPE, shell=True).communicate()[0].decode("utf-8")
  flags = output.split()
 
  for executable in list_of_executables: