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Manipulate return codes from executables

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Inspired by programs that return 1 on success, exesexe lets you wrap a call
to an executable and selectively override its return codes. This allows you,
for example, to use an aberrant installer with configuration management
software that expects programs to return 0 when successful.

exesexe will use the first argument it receives as its own directive, but all
other arguments will be executed without modification. The directive is a
comma-separated list, where each segment may have one of these forms:

```
1 whitelist 1 (convert to 0)
-1=2 substitute -1 with 2
5:8=9 substitute 5, 6, 7, and 8 with 9
!1 blacklist 1 (don't convert 1 at all; convert everything else to 0)
*=3 substitute all others with 3
```

Examples:
* `1,-1,2=3`
* Convert 1 and -1 to 0.
* Convert 2 to 3.

* `!2`
* Don't convert 2.
* Convert everything else to 0.

* `!-4=2`
* Don't convert -4.
* Convert everything else to 2.

* `*=10`
* Return 10 no matter what.

The precedence order is whitelists, specific substitutions, blacklists,
then *-substitutions, so `*=4,1=2,!3` would convert 1 to 2 rather than 4 or 0.
The lexical order only matters for overlapping segments, like `1=0,1=2`,
where the rightmost segment overrides the left segments.

Suppose you want to run the executable `foo`. You could issue any of these:

```
exesexe 1 foo # return 0 if foo returns 1
exesexe 3=4 foo # return 4 if foo returns 3
exesexe *=0 foo # always return 0
exesexe !2 foo # return 0 if foo does not return 2
exesexe !2,3=4 foo # if foo returns 3, return 4;
# else, if foo does not return 2, return 0;
# else, pass back foo's real return code
```

You can also use exesexe as a library:

```python
import exesexe
whitelist, blacklist, substitutions = exesexe.parse_directive("1,!2,3=4")
exesexe.interpret(
"foo --bar",
whitelist=[1],
blacklist=[2],
substitutions={3: 4, "*": 1}
)
```


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