[virt-tools-list] [virt-bootstrap] [PATCH v2 1/3] utils: Add is_installed function

Radostin Stoyanov rstoyanov1 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 12:08:33 UTC 2017


Add utility function to check whether an executable is available in
the PATH env variable.
---
 src/virtBootstrap/utils.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/virtBootstrap/utils.py b/src/virtBootstrap/utils.py
index 84d1629..ea84ed3 100644
--- a/src/virtBootstrap/utils.py
+++ b/src/virtBootstrap/utils.py
@@ -646,3 +646,16 @@ def mapping_uid_gid(dest, uid_map, gid_map):
     balance_uid_gid_maps(uid_map, gid_map)
     for uid, gid in zip(uid_map, gid_map):
         map_id(dest, uid, gid)
+
+
+def is_installed(program):
+    """
+    Try to find executable listed in the PATH env variable.
+
+    Returns the complete filename or None if not found.
+    """
+    for path in os.environ["PATH"].split(os.pathsep):
+        exec_file = os.path.join(path, program)
+        if os.path.isfile(exec_file) and os.access(exec_file, os.X_OK):
+            return exec_file
+    return None
-- 
2.13.6




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