@tushar-br/desktop 1.0.282 → 1.0.283

package/staging_area/micro projects/SD -Advanced Media Processing Toolkit Automated Downloader, Segmenter & Neural Dubber/.venv/Lib/site-packages/yt_dlp/update.py

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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import atexit
+import contextlib
+import hashlib
+import json
+import os
+import platform
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from zipimport import zipimporter
+
+from .compat import functools  # isort: split
+from .compat import compat_realpath, compat_shlex_quote
+from .networking import Request
+from .networking.exceptions import HTTPError, network_exceptions
+from .utils import (
+    NO_DEFAULT,
+    Popen,
+    deprecation_warning,
+    format_field,
+    remove_end,
+    shell_quote,
+    system_identifier,
+    version_tuple,
+)
+from .version import (
+    CHANNEL,
+    ORIGIN,
+    RELEASE_GIT_HEAD,
+    UPDATE_HINT,
+    VARIANT,
+    __version__,
+)
+
+UPDATE_SOURCES = {
+    'stable': 'yt-dlp/yt-dlp',
+    'nightly': 'yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds',
+    'master': 'yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds',
+}
+REPOSITORY = UPDATE_SOURCES['stable']
+_INVERSE_UPDATE_SOURCES = {value: key for key, value in UPDATE_SOURCES.items()}
+
+_VERSION_RE = re.compile(r'(\d+\.)*\d+')
+_HASH_PATTERN = r'[\da-f]{40}'
+_COMMIT_RE = re.compile(rf'Generated from: https://(?:[^/?#]+/){{3}}commit/(?P<hash>{_HASH_PATTERN})')
+
+API_BASE_URL = 'https://api.github.com/repos'
+
+# Backwards compatibility variables for the current channel
+API_URL = f'{API_BASE_URL}/{REPOSITORY}/releases'
+
+
+@functools.cache
+def _get_variant_and_executable_path():
+    """@returns (variant, executable_path)"""
+    if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
+        path = sys.executable
+        if not hasattr(sys, '_MEIPASS'):
+            return 'py2exe', path
+        elif sys._MEIPASS == os.path.dirname(path):
+            return f'{sys.platform}_dir', path
+        elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
+            machine = '_legacy' if version_tuple(platform.mac_ver()[0]) < (10, 15) else ''
+        else:
+            machine = f'_{platform.machine().lower()}'
+            # Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uname#Examples
+            if machine[1:] in ('x86', 'x86_64', 'amd64', 'i386', 'i686'):
+                machine = '_x86' if platform.architecture()[0][:2] == '32' else ''
+        return f'{remove_end(sys.platform, "32")}{machine}_exe', path
+
+    path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+    if isinstance(__loader__, zipimporter):
+        return 'zip', os.path.join(path, '..')
+    elif (os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) in ('__main__.py', '-m')
+          and os.path.exists(os.path.join(path, '../.git/HEAD'))):
+        return 'source', path
+    return 'unknown', path
+
+
+def detect_variant():
+    return VARIANT or _get_variant_and_executable_path()[0]
+
+
+@functools.cache
+def current_git_head():
+    if detect_variant() != 'source':
+        return
+    with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
+        stdout, _, _ = Popen.run(
+            ['git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD'],
+            text=True, cwd=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)),
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        if re.fullmatch('[0-9a-f]+', stdout.strip()):
+            return stdout.strip()
+
+
+_FILE_SUFFIXES = {
+    'zip': '',
+    'py2exe': '_min.exe',
+    'win_exe': '.exe',
+    'win_x86_exe': '_x86.exe',
+    'darwin_exe': '_macos',
+    'darwin_legacy_exe': '_macos_legacy',
+    'linux_exe': '_linux',
+    'linux_aarch64_exe': '_linux_aarch64',
+    'linux_armv7l_exe': '_linux_armv7l',
+}
+
+_NON_UPDATEABLE_REASONS = {
+    **{variant: None for variant in _FILE_SUFFIXES},  # Updatable
+    **{variant: f'Auto-update is not supported for unpackaged {name} executable; Re-download the latest release'
+       for variant, name in {'win32_dir': 'Windows', 'darwin_dir': 'MacOS', 'linux_dir': 'Linux'}.items()},
+    'source': 'You cannot update when running from source code; Use git to pull the latest changes',
+    'unknown': 'You installed yt-dlp with a package manager or setup.py; Use that to update',
+    'other': 'You are using an unofficial build of yt-dlp; Build the executable again',
+}
+
+
+def is_non_updateable():
+    if UPDATE_HINT:
+        return UPDATE_HINT
+    return _NON_UPDATEABLE_REASONS.get(
+        detect_variant(), _NON_UPDATEABLE_REASONS['unknown' if VARIANT else 'other'])
+
+
+def _get_binary_name():
+    return format_field(_FILE_SUFFIXES, detect_variant(), template='yt-dlp%s', ignore=None, default=None)
+
+
+def _get_system_deprecation():
+    MIN_SUPPORTED, MIN_RECOMMENDED = (3, 8), (3, 8)
+
+    if sys.version_info > MIN_RECOMMENDED:
+        return None
+
+    major, minor = sys.version_info[:2]
+    if sys.version_info < MIN_SUPPORTED:
+        msg = f'Python version {major}.{minor} is no longer supported'
+    else:
+        msg = (f'Support for Python version {major}.{minor} has been deprecated. '
+               '\nYou may stop receiving updates on this version at any time')
+
+    major, minor = MIN_RECOMMENDED
+    return f'{msg}! Please update to Python {major}.{minor} or above'
+
+
+def _sha256_file(path):
+    h = hashlib.sha256()
+    mv = memoryview(bytearray(128 * 1024))
+    with open(os.path.realpath(path), 'rb', buffering=0) as f:
+        for n in iter(lambda: f.readinto(mv), 0):
+            h.update(mv[:n])
+    return h.hexdigest()
+
+
+def _make_label(origin, tag, version=None):
+    if '/' in origin:
+        channel = _INVERSE_UPDATE_SOURCES.get(origin, origin)
+    else:
+        channel = origin
+    label = f'{channel}@{tag}'
+    if version and version != tag:
+        label += f' build {version}'
+    if channel != origin:
+        label += f' from {origin}'
+    return label
+
+
+@dataclass
+class UpdateInfo:
+    """
+    Update target information
+
+    Can be created by `query_update()` or manually.
+
+    Attributes:
+        tag                 The release tag that will be updated to. If from query_update,
+                            the value is after API resolution and update spec processing.
+                            The only property that is required.
+        version             The actual numeric version (if available) of the binary to be updated to,
+                            after API resolution and update spec processing. (default: None)
+        requested_version   Numeric version of the binary being requested (if available),
+                            after API resolution only. (default: None)
+        commit              Commit hash (if available) of the binary to be updated to,
+                            after API resolution and update spec processing. (default: None)
+                            This value will only match the RELEASE_GIT_HEAD of prerelease builds.
+        binary_name         Filename of the binary to be updated to. (default: current binary name)
+        checksum            Expected checksum (if available) of the binary to be
+                            updated to. (default: None)
+    """
+    tag: str
+    version: str | None = None
+    requested_version: str | None = None
+    commit: str | None = None
+
+    binary_name: str | None = _get_binary_name()
+    checksum: str | None = None
+
+    _has_update = True
+
+
+class Updater:
+    # XXX: use class variables to simplify testing
+    _channel = CHANNEL
+    _origin = ORIGIN
+    _update_sources = UPDATE_SOURCES
+
+    def __init__(self, ydl, target: str | None = None):
+        self.ydl = ydl
+        # For backwards compat, target needs to be treated as if it could be None
+        self.requested_channel, sep, self.requested_tag = (target or self._channel).rpartition('@')
+        # Check if requested_tag is actually the requested repo/channel
+        if not sep and ('/' in self.requested_tag or self.requested_tag in self._update_sources):
+            self.requested_channel = self.requested_tag
+            self.requested_tag: str = None  # type: ignore (we set it later)
+        elif not self.requested_channel:
+            # User did not specify a channel, so we are requesting the default channel
+            self.requested_channel = self._channel.partition('@')[0]
+
+        # --update should not be treated as an exact tag request even if CHANNEL has a @tag
+        self._exact = bool(target) and target != self._channel
+        if not self.requested_tag:
+            # User did not specify a tag, so we request 'latest' and track that no exact tag was passed
+            self.requested_tag = 'latest'
+            self._exact = False
+
+        if '/' in self.requested_channel:
+            # requested_channel is actually a repository
+            self.requested_repo = self.requested_channel
+            if not self.requested_repo.startswith('yt-dlp/') and self.requested_repo != self._origin:
+                self.ydl.report_warning(
+                    f'You are switching to an {self.ydl._format_err("unofficial", "red")} executable '
+                    f'from {self.ydl._format_err(self.requested_repo, self.ydl.Styles.EMPHASIS)}. '
+                    f'Run {self.ydl._format_err("at your own risk", "light red")}')
+                self._block_restart('Automatically restarting into custom builds is disabled for security reasons')
+        else:
+            # Check if requested_channel resolves to a known repository or else raise
+            self.requested_repo = self._update_sources.get(self.requested_channel)
+            if not self.requested_repo:
+                self._report_error(
+                    f'Invalid update channel {self.requested_channel!r} requested. '
+                    f'Valid channels are {", ".join(self._update_sources)}', True)
+
+        self._identifier = f'{detect_variant()} {system_identifier()}'
+
+    @property
+    def current_version(self):
+        """Current version"""
+        return __version__
+
+    @property
+    def current_commit(self):
+        """Current commit hash"""
+        return RELEASE_GIT_HEAD
+
+    def _download_asset(self, name, tag=None):
+        if not tag:
+            tag = self.requested_tag
+
+        path = 'latest/download' if tag == 'latest' else f'download/{tag}'
+        url = f'https://github.com/{self.requested_repo}/releases/{path}/{name}'
+        self.ydl.write_debug(f'Downloading {name} from {url}')
+        return self.ydl.urlopen(url).read()
+
+    def _call_api(self, tag):
+        tag = f'tags/{tag}' if tag != 'latest' else tag
+        url = f'{API_BASE_URL}/{self.requested_repo}/releases/{tag}'
+        self.ydl.write_debug(f'Fetching release info: {url}')
+        return json.loads(self.ydl.urlopen(Request(url, headers={
+            'Accept': 'application/vnd.github+json',
+            'User-Agent': 'yt-dlp',
+            'X-GitHub-Api-Version': '2022-11-28',
+        })).read().decode())
+
+    def _get_version_info(self, tag: str) -> tuple[str | None, str | None]:
+        if _VERSION_RE.fullmatch(tag):
+            return tag, None
+
+        api_info = self._call_api(tag)
+
+        if tag == 'latest':
+            requested_version = api_info['tag_name']
+        else:
+            match = re.search(rf'\s+(?P<version>{_VERSION_RE.pattern})$', api_info.get('name', ''))
+            requested_version = match.group('version') if match else None
+
+        if re.fullmatch(_HASH_PATTERN, api_info.get('target_commitish', '')):
+            target_commitish = api_info['target_commitish']
+        else:
+            match = _COMMIT_RE.match(api_info.get('body', ''))
+            target_commitish = match.group('hash') if match else None
+
+        if not (requested_version or target_commitish):
+            self._report_error('One of either version or commit hash must be available on the release', expected=True)
+
+        return requested_version, target_commitish
+
+    def _download_update_spec(self, source_tags):
+        for tag in source_tags:
+            try:
+                return self._download_asset('_update_spec', tag=tag).decode()
+            except network_exceptions as error:
+                if isinstance(error, HTTPError) and error.status == 404:
+                    continue
+                self._report_network_error(f'fetch update spec: {error}')
+
+        self._report_error(
+            f'The requested tag {self.requested_tag} does not exist for {self.requested_repo}', True)
+        return None
+
+    def _process_update_spec(self, lockfile: str, resolved_tag: str):
+        lines = lockfile.splitlines()
+        is_version2 = any(line.startswith('lockV2 ') for line in lines)
+
+        for line in lines:
+            if is_version2:
+                if not line.startswith(f'lockV2 {self.requested_repo} '):
+                    continue
+                _, _, tag, pattern = line.split(' ', 3)
+            else:
+                if not line.startswith('lock '):
+                    continue
+                _, tag, pattern = line.split(' ', 2)
+
+            if re.match(pattern, self._identifier):
+                if _VERSION_RE.fullmatch(tag):
+                    if not self._exact:
+                        return tag
+                    elif self._version_compare(tag, resolved_tag):
+                        return resolved_tag
+                elif tag != resolved_tag:
+                    continue
+
+                self._report_error(
+                    f'yt-dlp cannot be updated to {resolved_tag} since you are on an older Python version', True)
+                return None
+
+        return resolved_tag
+
+    def _version_compare(self, a: str, b: str):
+        """
+        Compare two version strings
+
+        This function SHOULD NOT be called if self._exact == True
+        """
+        if _VERSION_RE.fullmatch(f'{a}.{b}'):
+            return version_tuple(a) >= version_tuple(b)
+        return a == b
+
+    def query_update(self, *, _output=False) -> UpdateInfo | None:
+        """Fetches info about the available update
+        @returns   An `UpdateInfo` if there is an update available, else None
+        """
+        if not self.requested_repo:
+            self._report_error('No target repository could be determined from input')
+            return None
+
+        try:
+            requested_version, target_commitish = self._get_version_info(self.requested_tag)
+        except network_exceptions as e:
+            self._report_network_error(f'obtain version info ({e})', delim='; Please try again later or')
+            return None
+
+        if self._exact and self._origin != self.requested_repo:
+            has_update = True
+        elif requested_version:
+            if self._exact:
+                has_update = self.current_version != requested_version
+            else:
+                has_update = not self._version_compare(self.current_version, requested_version)
+        elif target_commitish:
+            has_update = target_commitish != self.current_commit
+        else:
+            has_update = False
+
+        resolved_tag = requested_version if self.requested_tag == 'latest' else self.requested_tag
+        current_label = _make_label(self._origin, self._channel.partition("@")[2] or self.current_version, self.current_version)
+        requested_label = _make_label(self.requested_repo, resolved_tag, requested_version)
+        latest_or_requested = f'{"Latest" if self.requested_tag == "latest" else "Requested"} version: {requested_label}'
+        if not has_update:
+            if _output:
+                self.ydl.to_screen(f'{latest_or_requested}\nyt-dlp is up to date ({current_label})')
+            return None
+
+        update_spec = self._download_update_spec(('latest', None) if requested_version else (None,))
+        if not update_spec:
+            return None
+        # `result_` prefixed vars == post-_process_update_spec() values
+        result_tag = self._process_update_spec(update_spec, resolved_tag)
+        if not result_tag or result_tag == self.current_version:
+            return None
+        elif result_tag == resolved_tag:
+            result_version = requested_version
+        elif _VERSION_RE.fullmatch(result_tag):
+            result_version = result_tag
+        else:  # actual version being updated to is unknown
+            result_version = None
+
+        checksum = None
+        # Non-updateable variants can get update_info but need to skip checksum
+        if not is_non_updateable():
+            try:
+                hashes = self._download_asset('SHA2-256SUMS', result_tag)
+            except network_exceptions as error:
+                if not isinstance(error, HTTPError) or error.status != 404:
+                    self._report_network_error(f'fetch checksums: {error}')
+                    return None
+                self.ydl.report_warning('No hash information found for the release, skipping verification')
+            else:
+                for ln in hashes.decode().splitlines():
+                    if ln.endswith(_get_binary_name()):
+                        checksum = ln.split()[0]
+                        break
+                if not checksum:
+                    self.ydl.report_warning('The hash could not be found in the checksum file, skipping verification')
+
+        if _output:
+            update_label = _make_label(self.requested_repo, result_tag, result_version)
+            self.ydl.to_screen(
+                f'Current version: {current_label}\n{latest_or_requested}'
+                + (f'\nUpgradable to: {update_label}' if update_label != requested_label else ''))
+
+        return UpdateInfo(
+            tag=result_tag,
+            version=result_version,
+            requested_version=requested_version,
+            commit=target_commitish if result_tag == resolved_tag else None,
+            checksum=checksum)
+
+    def update(self, update_info=NO_DEFAULT):
+        """Update yt-dlp executable to the latest version
+        @param update_info  `UpdateInfo | None` as returned by query_update()
+        """
+        if update_info is NO_DEFAULT:
+            update_info = self.query_update(_output=True)
+        if not update_info:
+            return False
+
+        err = is_non_updateable()
+        if err:
+            self._report_error(err, True)
+            return False
+
+        self.ydl.to_screen(f'Current Build Hash: {_sha256_file(self.filename)}')
+
+        update_label = _make_label(self.requested_repo, update_info.tag, update_info.version)
+        self.ydl.to_screen(f'Updating to {update_label} ...')
+
+        directory = os.path.dirname(self.filename)
+        if not os.access(self.filename, os.W_OK):
+            return self._report_permission_error(self.filename)
+        elif not os.access(directory, os.W_OK):
+            return self._report_permission_error(directory)
+
+        new_filename, old_filename = f'{self.filename}.new', f'{self.filename}.old'
+        if detect_variant() == 'zip':  # Can be replaced in-place
+            new_filename, old_filename = self.filename, None
+
+        try:
+            if os.path.exists(old_filename or ''):
+                os.remove(old_filename)
+        except OSError:
+            return self._report_error('Unable to remove the old version')
+
+        try:
+            newcontent = self._download_asset(update_info.binary_name, update_info.tag)
+        except network_exceptions as e:
+            if isinstance(e, HTTPError) and e.status == 404:
+                return self._report_error(
+                    f'The requested tag {self.requested_repo}@{update_info.tag} does not exist', True)
+            return self._report_network_error(f'fetch updates: {e}', tag=update_info.tag)
+
+        if not update_info.checksum:
+            self._block_restart('Automatically restarting into unverified builds is disabled for security reasons')
+        elif hashlib.sha256(newcontent).hexdigest() != update_info.checksum:
+            return self._report_network_error('verify the new executable', tag=update_info.tag)
+
+        try:
+            with open(new_filename, 'wb') as outf:
+                outf.write(newcontent)
+        except OSError:
+            return self._report_permission_error(new_filename)
+
+        if old_filename:
+            mask = os.stat(self.filename).st_mode
+            try:
+                os.rename(self.filename, old_filename)
+            except OSError:
+                return self._report_error('Unable to move current version')
+
+            try:
+                os.rename(new_filename, self.filename)
+            except OSError:
+                self._report_error('Unable to overwrite current version')
+                return os.rename(old_filename, self.filename)
+
+        variant = detect_variant()
+        if variant.startswith('win') or variant == 'py2exe':
+            atexit.register(Popen, f'ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 1000 & del /F "{old_filename}"',
+                            shell=True, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+        elif old_filename:
+            try:
+                os.remove(old_filename)
+            except OSError:
+                self._report_error('Unable to remove the old version')
+
+            try:
+                os.chmod(self.filename, mask)
+            except OSError:
+                return self._report_error(
+                    f'Unable to set permissions. Run: sudo chmod a+rx {compat_shlex_quote(self.filename)}')
+
+        self.ydl.to_screen(f'Updated yt-dlp to {update_label}')
+        return True
+
+    @functools.cached_property
+    def filename(self):
+        """Filename of the executable"""
+        return compat_realpath(_get_variant_and_executable_path()[1])
+
+    @functools.cached_property
+    def cmd(self):
+        """The command-line to run the executable, if known"""
+        # There is no sys.orig_argv in py < 3.10. Also, it can be [] when frozen
+        if getattr(sys, 'orig_argv', None):
+            return sys.orig_argv
+        elif getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
+            return sys.argv
+
+    def restart(self):
+        """Restart the executable"""
+        assert self.cmd, 'Must be frozen or Py >= 3.10'
+        self.ydl.write_debug(f'Restarting: {shell_quote(self.cmd)}')
+        _, _, returncode = Popen.run(self.cmd)
+        return returncode
+
+    def _block_restart(self, msg):
+        def wrapper():
+            self._report_error(f'{msg}. Restart yt-dlp to use the updated version', expected=True)
+            return self.ydl._download_retcode
+        self.restart = wrapper
+
+    def _report_error(self, msg, expected=False):
+        self.ydl.report_error(msg, tb=False if expected else None)
+        self.ydl._download_retcode = 100
+
+    def _report_permission_error(self, file):
+        self._report_error(f'Unable to write to {file}; try running as administrator', True)
+
+    def _report_network_error(self, action, delim=';', tag=None):
+        if not tag:
+            tag = self.requested_tag
+        self._report_error(
+            f'Unable to {action}{delim} visit  https://github.com/{self.requested_repo}/releases/'
+            + tag if tag == "latest" else f"tag/{tag}", True)
+
+    # XXX: Everything below this line in this class is deprecated / for compat only
+    @property
+    def _target_tag(self):
+        """Deprecated; requested tag with 'tags/' prepended when necessary for API calls"""
+        return f'tags/{self.requested_tag}' if self.requested_tag != 'latest' else self.requested_tag
+
+    def _check_update(self):
+        """Deprecated; report whether there is an update available"""
+        return bool(self.query_update(_output=True))
+
+    def __getattr__(self, attribute: str):
+        """Compat getter function for deprecated attributes"""
+        deprecated_props_map = {
+            'check_update': '_check_update',
+            'target_tag': '_target_tag',
+            'target_channel': 'requested_channel',
+        }
+        update_info_props_map = {
+            'has_update': '_has_update',
+            'new_version': 'version',
+            'latest_version': 'requested_version',
+            'release_name': 'binary_name',
+            'release_hash': 'checksum',
+        }
+
+        if attribute not in deprecated_props_map and attribute not in update_info_props_map:
+            raise AttributeError(f'{type(self).__name__!r} object has no attribute {attribute!r}')
+
+        msg = f'{type(self).__name__}.{attribute} is deprecated and will be removed in a future version'
+        if attribute in deprecated_props_map:
+            source_name = deprecated_props_map[attribute]
+            if not source_name.startswith('_'):
+                msg += f'. Please use {source_name!r} instead'
+            source = self
+            mapping = deprecated_props_map
+
+        else:  # attribute in update_info_props_map
+            msg += '. Please call query_update() instead'
+            source = self.query_update()
+            if source is None:
+                source = UpdateInfo('', None, None, None)
+                source._has_update = False
+            mapping = update_info_props_map
+
+        deprecation_warning(msg)
+        for target_name, source_name in mapping.items():
+            value = getattr(source, source_name)
+            setattr(self, target_name, value)
+
+        return getattr(self, attribute)
+
+
+def run_update(ydl):
+    """Update the program file with the latest version from the repository
+    @returns    Whether there was a successful update (No update = False)
+    """
+    return Updater(ydl).update()
+
+
+__all__ = ['Updater']

package/staging_area/micro projects/SD -Advanced Media Processing Toolkit Automated Downloader, Segmenter & Neural Dubber/.venv/Lib/site-packages/yt_dlp/utils/__init__.py

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+# flake8: noqa: F403
+from ..compat.compat_utils import passthrough_module
+
+passthrough_module(__name__, '._deprecated')
+del passthrough_module
+
+# isort: off
+from .traversal import *
+from ._utils import *
+from ._utils import _configuration_args, _get_exe_version_output  # noqa: F401

package/staging_area/micro projects/SD -Advanced Media Processing Toolkit Automated Downloader, Segmenter & Neural Dubber/.venv/Lib/site-packages/yt_dlp/utils/_deprecated.py

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+"""Deprecated - New code should avoid these"""
+import warnings
+
+from ..compat.compat_utils import passthrough_module
+
+# XXX: Implement this the same way as other DeprecationWarnings without circular import
+passthrough_module(__name__, '.._legacy', callback=lambda attr: warnings.warn(
+    DeprecationWarning(f'{__name__}.{attr} is deprecated'), stacklevel=6))
+del passthrough_module
+
+
+from ._utils import preferredencoding
+
+
+def encodeFilename(s, for_subprocess=False):
+    assert isinstance(s, str)
+    return s
+
+
+def decodeFilename(b, for_subprocess=False):
+    return b
+
+
+def decodeArgument(b):
+    return b
+
+
+def decodeOption(optval):
+    if optval is None:
+        return optval
+    if isinstance(optval, bytes):
+        optval = optval.decode(preferredencoding())
+
+    assert isinstance(optval, str)
+    return optval
+
+
+def error_to_compat_str(err):
+    return str(err)