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JakeWharton
in windows,how to use? search anywhere,nothing.
I face a similar issue.Running python pidcat.py provides me the same output as adb logcat (This is the expected behaviour ).
However
python pidcat.py apptag yields no output
I solved this issue by using a different version of python. However the windows terminal renders this without colored text and line wrapping.Is there anyway to overcome that?
Windows 10 solves this with Bash.And i think even the default terminal application supports colors now .You could also try other terminal apps for windows. But the default one will not support colours
@droidekas Which version of python did you try? I tried with 2.7 and 3.2, it doesn't work.
For some reason, if I write in cmd python pidcat.py - it fails with :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Android\SDK\platform-tools\pidcat.py", line 199, in <module>
adb = subprocess.Popen(adb_command, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
File "E:\Packages\Python35\lib\subprocess.py", line 950, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "E:\Packages\Python35\lib\subprocess.py", line 1220, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] **here says "can't find file"**
But if I write .bat file with same content and run it as it is (without cmd), than it runs okay (but no colorization/wrapping).
i tried cmder/cygwin/powershell however, python pidcat.py apptag no output my python version is 3.5
I dug into the script and found two changes that made it work for me. I'm using python 3.6
To get the script to recognize package change this line:
catchall_package = filter(lambda package: package.find(":") == -1, package)
to
catchall_package = list(filter(lambda package: package.find(":") == -1, package))
because of this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21715268/list-returned-by-map-function-disappears-after-one-use
To get the formatting to look right in my command prompt I took out the encode command on the last line:
print(linebuf)
i run python pidcat.py com.oprah.bees.android in windows but it doesn't work
I'm using in cygwin, but I needed to revert this change: https://github.com/JakeWharton/pidcat/commit/6b6034ab67de794e6e16439488dcc03ebb2e02ef
From:
print(linebuf.encode('utf-8'))
To:
print(linebuf)
It'll print colorized string instead of printing the bytes:
string:
bytes:
P.S.: I'm using python 3.6.4
Before start trying with "Bash On Ubuntu On Windows", please check if it was added support to USB devices: https://askubuntu.com/a/826642
I added this to the script to enable native VT100 support on Windows 10:
from ctypes import *
def enableVT100():
STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE = -11
ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING = 4
stdout = windll.kernel32.GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
if stdout == -1:
raise WinError()
mode = c_uint()
if windll.kernel32.GetConsoleMode(stdout, byref(mode)) == 0:
raise WinError()
mode.value = mode.value | ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING
if windll.kernel32.SetConsoleMode(stdout, mode) == 0:
raise WinError()
enableVT100()
Tested on Window 10 v1709, worked like a charm. No Bash or Cygwin required.
I forked this repo and included the above VT100 enabling code: https://github.com/Torvin/pidcat-win10
@JakeWharton will a pull request with my changes be accepted?
@Torvin your fork works great but I am not able to use the package filtering. if I run python.exe .\pidcat.py in both Powershell and git bash I can see all the logs with colors and format but all the logcat output.
If i want to see my package only i cannot see any log at all for example: python.exe .\pidcat.py com.my.package
Do you know if something has changed with latest android 10 release? Thanks in advance!
I just wanted to say that the above-mentioned change made the script (downloaded just now) work for me on Windows 10, Python 3.7.6 in a plain (cmd.exe) command prompt. Previously, pidcat <app-package> produced no output.
I dug into the script and found two changes that made it work for me. I'm using python 3.6
To get the script to recognize package change this line:
catchall_package = filter(lambda package: package.find(":") == -1, package)to
catchall_package = list(filter(lambda package: package.find(":") == -1, package))because of this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21715268/list-returned-by-map-function-disappears-after-one-use
To get the formatting to look right in my command prompt I took out the encode command on the last line:
print(linebuf)
