- firstline = out.partition(b'\n')[0].decode('ascii', 'ignore')
- m = re.search(version_re, firstline)
+ if isinstance(out, bytes): # Python 2.x
+ out = out.decode('ascii', 'ignore')
+ return detect_exe_version(out, version_re, unrecognized)
+
+
+def detect_exe_version(output, version_re=None, unrecognized='present'):
+ assert isinstance(output, compat_str)
+ if version_re is None:
+ version_re = r'version\s+([-0-9._a-zA-Z]+)'
+ m = re.search(version_re, output)