How do I “create”/“assign” a logging handler for Google Cloud Pubsub?

Question

Development from the previous thread found that the assumptions when asking the question were off-topic (subprocess was actually not causing the problems), so I\'m making a more

Answer 1

As Nahuel and tripleee explained, the problem is with the messages being BYTES instead of strings. However, their code didn't exactly work, and still threw out errors, and I have no idea why. By cross-referencing with Google's sample code for the pubsub appengine website, and a few more hours of trial and error, I have found the following code to be working. Might be inelegant and/or have bad practices, in that case please edit it and make it more robust.

#Continues from after message.ack(), above code remains unchanged
#except needing to 

    #this makes a message.data a true python dict with strings.
    payload = json.loads(message.data.decode('utf-8')) 

    #this finds the value of the dict with key "name"
    namepath = payload["name"]

    #this is just a static string to pre-pend to the file path
    dirpath = "/home/[redacted]/"

    #combine them into a single functioning path
    fullpath = dirpath + namepath

    #currently type 'unicode', so convert them to type 'str'
    fullpath = fullpath.encode("utf-8")

And at the end we will have a fullpath that is purely type 'str' to be used by later functions/commands.