How to get a list of a repository branches using Python

Question

I am trying to get a list of all the branches available on my repository using Python with this code :

import subprocess

branches = ["All"]

command = "git branch -r"

branch_list = subprocess.check_output(command)

for branch in branch_list:

   print branch

   branches.append[branch]

What I want is to have something like :

print branches[0] # is "All"

print branches[1] # is "branch1"

print branches[2] # is "branch2"

etc etc

but instead of that I have

print branches[0] # is "All"

print branches[1] # is "b"

print branches[2] # is "r"

print branches[3] # is "a"

print branches[4] # is "n"

print branches[5] # is "c"

print branches[6] # is "h"

etc etc

Thank you for your time and your help.

Answer 1

You can try using the decode function for that:

stdout = subprocess.check_output('git branch -a'.split())

out = stdout.decode()

branches = [b.strip('* ') for b in out.splitlines()]

print(branches)

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