import subprocess import logging def run_program(cmd, show=True): p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) stdout, stderr = p.communicate() stderr = stderr.decode('utf-8', 'replace') if p.returncode != 0 and show: msg = stderr.strip() logging.error("Something went wrong: {0}".format(msg)) return p.returncode, stdout, stderr