refactored subshell execution code for greater readability and moved it to utils

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/bitsandbytes/cuda_setup.py b/bitsandbytes/cuda_setup.py
index 0dd53c5..8cc2c03 100644
--- a/bitsandbytes/cuda_setup.py
+++ b/bitsandbytes/cuda_setup.py
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ evaluation:
 """
 
 import ctypes
-import shlex
-import subprocess
 from os import environ as env
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Set, Union
@@ -28,15 +26,6 @@ from typing import Set, Union
 from .utils import print_err, warn_of_missing_prerequisite
 
 
-def execute_and_return(strCMD):
-    proc = subprocess.Popen(
-        shlex.split(strCMD), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE
-    )
-    out, err = proc.communicate()
-    out, err = out.decode("UTF-8").strip(), err.decode("UTF-8").strip()
-    return out, err
-
-
 def check_cuda_result(cuda, result_val):
     if result_val != 0:
         cuda.cuGetErrorString(result_val, ctypes.byref(error_str))