From 52fc0fa054641a9f93379ce7212c6b6b5452b929 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Zolliker <markus.zolliker@psi.ch>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 14:16:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] unified sics_command() with sics_client()

---
 sicsclient.py | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sicsclient.py b/sicsclient.py
index d559e10..d4dbb8f 100644
--- a/sicsclient.py
+++ b/sicsclient.py
@@ -49,14 +49,11 @@ def sics_coroutine(hostport, login):
         request = yield '\n'.join(result)
 
 
-def sics_client(hostport, login='Spy 007'):
+def sics_client(hostport, command=None, login='Spy 007'):
     sics = sics_coroutine(hostport, login)
     next(sics)  # start generator
-    return sics
-
-
-def sics_command(hostport, command, login='Spy 007'):
-    sics = sics_client(hostport, login)
+    if command is None:
+        return sics
     result = sics.send(command)
     sics.close()
     return result