In d632908a44 we improved our
`replace_control_chars()` function, by replacing every control or
invalid Unicode character with a placeholder one. This change, however,
made our debug logs harder to read, since newlines were not preserved.
There are indeed various cases in which replacing newlines is wise
(e.g., in filenames), so we should keep this behavior by default.
However, specifically for reading debug logs, we add an option to keep
newlines to improve readability, at no expense to security.
This reverts commit fea193e935.
This is part of the purge of timeout-related code since we no longer
need it [1]. Non-blocking reads were introduced in the reverted commit
in order to be able to cut a stream mid-way due to a timeout. This is
no longer needed now that we're getting rid of timeouts.
[1]: https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone/issues/687
Run Mypy static checks against our tests. This brings them inline with
the rest of the codebase, and we have an extra level of certainty that
the tests (and unit tests in particular) will not significantly diverge
from the code they are testing.
static methods that are used application-wide should belong to
the utilities python file.
inspired by @gmarmstrong's PR #166 on refactoring global_common
methods to be static and have a dzutil.py