i3_info

This is a recreation of the i3info tool written by budlabs.
budlabs describes i3info as top secret technology.
Watch budlabs video explaination regarding the utility "i3wm HOWTO scratchpad and start programs (i3run)".
When i3_info runs, information about focused windows, workspaces, and active keybindings are continuously updated and displayed in a terminal.

Bugs

When awaiting tree information from i3ipc.Connection with tree = await i3.get_tree() inorder to parse the focused workspace,
the program will eventually fail due to a JSON parse error.

Error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/technicus/.config/i3/Macro_buttons/i3_info/development/./i3_info.py", line 135, in <module>
    asyncio.new_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/asyncio/base_events.py", line 646, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "/home/technicus/.config/i3/Macro_buttons/i3_info/development/./i3_info.py", line 129, in main
    await i3.main()
  File "/home/technicus/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/i3ipc/aio/connection.py", line 664, in main
    await self._main_future
  File "/home/technicus/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/i3ipc/aio/connection.py", line 34, in handler_coroutine
    await handler(conn, data)
  File "/home/technicus/.config/i3/Macro_buttons/i3_info/development/./i3_info.py", line 36, in on_window_focus
    tree = await i3.get_tree()
  File "/home/technicus/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/i3ipc/aio/connection.py", line 589, in get_tree
    return Con(json.loads(data), None, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 36441 (char 36440)

Solution

def get_current_workspace():
    workspace = check_output("i3-msg -t get_workspaces   | jq '.[] | select(.focused==true).name' | cut -d'\"' -f2", shell=True)
    workspace = str(workspace).strip("b'").rstrip("/\/n")
    return workspace