[OE-core] can i use bitbake to run an arbitrary python routine in a class file?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm not even remotely a python expert (working on that, though) so
there may be a trivial and documented answer to this -- can i use
bitbake to run an arbitrary python routine to see what the output
would be?

  for example, here's qemu.bbclass:

def qemu_target_binary(data):
        import bb

        target_arch = data.getVar("TARGET_ARCH", True)
        if target_arch in ("i486", "i586", "i686"):
                target_arch = "i386"
        elif target_arch == "powerpc":
                target_arch = "ppc"

        return "qemu-" + target_arch

what if i wanted to see what that would return given a current build?
can i do that?  does that question even make sense?

rday

p.s.  i am documenting all these answers, so they're not disappearing
into the ether.

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