added pracct deamon

herbstluftwm/hl_error.py

@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
 import datetime
 import sys
 import os
+import subprocess
+import shlex
+import re
+
+def color_remove(s):
+        '''removes colorcodes from inputstring'''
+        return re.compile(r'(\x9B|\x1B\[)[0-?]*[ -\/]*[@-~]').sub('',s)
+
+def shexec(s):
+        return subprocess.check_output(shlex.split(s)).decode()
+
+def is_cip():
+        u = os.uname()
+        return "cip" in u.release or "faui" in u.name or "ircbox" in u.name
 
 def error(s):
         with open("herbstlog",'a') as f: