Idea: CLI argument for dev debug

[deathbybandaid]

08:39 <deathbybandaid> what if there was a sopel argument that could gather some basic
                       info regarding the OS environment, python version, etc,,, that
                       uploads to a pastebin (or something) 
08:40 <deathbybandaid> `SecretAttribute` config options could be kept safe?
08:41 <deathbybandaid> upload as `[REDACTED]`
08:46 <+dgw> Sounds like a good feature idea for helpel

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Task list by @dgw:

• Add platform/OS version to --version output
• More paths/search locations/etc. either in --version or a new CLI arg
• Detailed debug output (config values, etc.) to a pastebin through a new CLI command or tool

[dgw]

Part of this is already there in the --version argument's output:

$ sopel --version
Sopel 7.0.0.dev0 (running on Python 3.6.8)
https://sopel.chat/

If it's just printing the OS platform/version, that probably should exist in the version output too.

More detailed stuff like the path Sopel's running from, search directories for config/plugins/etc., and maybe other stuff could go in another CLI arg (no idea right now what we'd name it).

Pastebinning detailed configuration and other in-the-weeds debug stuff probably belongs as an 8.0 thing, pending #1600 happening (so we can very reliably avoid dumping out keys/passwords/secrets).

[dgw]

Punt. But who among us honestly thought this would get done for 7.1? I mean really.

[deathbybandaid]

Stealing some code from another project that I worked on

    def is_docker(self):
        path = "/proc/self/cgroup"
        if not os.path.isfile(path):
            return False
        with open(path) as f:
            for line in f:
                if re.match("\d+:[\w=]+:/docker(-[ce]e)?/\w+", line):
                    return True
            return False

    def is_virtualenv(self):
        # return True if started from within a virtualenv or venv
        base_prefix = getattr(sys, "base_prefix", None)
        # real_prefix will return None if not in a virtualenv enviroment or the default python path
        real_prefix = getattr(sys, "real_prefix", None) or sys.prefix
        return base_prefix != real_prefix

I think somewhere in the sopel code we also have a check for Windows/Linux/Darwin, as well as a check for if the user is root/Administrator

        opersystem = platform.system()
        system_alias = platform.release()

[deathbybandaid]

It might also be helpful for the debug command to list installed sopel plugins