diffoscope/tools.py

@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ except ImportError:
 from .profiling import profile
 from .external_tools import EXTERNAL_TOOLS, REMAPPED_TOOL_NAMES, GNU_TOOL_NAMES
 
-# Memoize calls to ``which`` to avoid excessive stat calls
-find_executable = functools.lru_cache()(shutil.which)
-
 # The output of --help and --list-tools will use the order of this dict.
 # Please keep it alphabetized.
 OS_NAMES = collections.OrderedDict(
@@ -44,6 +41,24 @@ OS_NAMES = collections.OrderedDict(
 )
 
 
+@functools.lru_cache()
+def find_executable(cmd):
+    """
+    Given a command name (eg. `dumppdf`), return the absolute path to that
+    command. Will also try the command with some common suffixes (eg.
+    `dumppdf.py`) to support distributions that strip or retain them.
+
+    Returns an empy string (``) if no command is found.
+    """
+
+    for suffix in ("", ".py"):
+        val = shutil.which(f"{cmd}{suffix}")
+        if val:
+            return val
+
+    return ""
+
+
 def get_tools(only_missing=False):
     """Return the tool configuration in a dict"""