old_contents: # (c) 2016, James Tanner
  # (c) 2016, Toshio Kuratomi <tkuratomi@ansible.com>
  #
  # This file is part of Ansible
  #
  # Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  # (at your option) any later version.
  #
  # Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  # GNU General Public License for more details.
  #
  # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  # along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  
  # Make coding more python3-ish
  from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
  __metaclass__ = type
  
  import subprocess
  
  
  _HAS_CONTROLPERSIST = {}
  
  
  def check_for_controlpersist(ssh_executable):
      try:
          # If we've already checked this executable
          return _HAS_CONTROLPERSIST[ssh_executable]
      except KeyError:
          pass
  
      has_cp = True
      try:
          cmd = subprocess.Popen([ssh_executable, '-o', 'ControlPersist'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
          (out, err) = cmd.communicate()
          if b"Bad configuration option" in err or b"Usage:" in err:
              has_cp = False
      except OSError:
          has_cp = False
  
      _HAS_CONTROLPERSIST[ssh_executable] = has_cp
      return has_cp
  
new_contents: # (c) 2016, James Tanner
  # (c) 2016, Toshio Kuratomi <tkuratomi@ansible.com>
  #
  # This file is part of Ansible
  #
  # Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  # (at your option) any later version.
  #
  # Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  # GNU General Public License for more details.
  #
  # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  # along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  
  # Make coding more python3-ish
  from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
  __metaclass__ = type
  
  import subprocess
  
  from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
  
  
  _HAS_CONTROLPERSIST = {}
  
  
  def check_for_controlpersist(ssh_executable):
      try:
          # If we've already checked this executable
          return _HAS_CONTROLPERSIST[ssh_executable]
      except KeyError:
          pass
  
      b_ssh_exec = to_bytes(ssh_executable, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
      has_cp = True
      try:
          cmd = subprocess.Popen([b_ssh_exec, '-o', 'ControlPersist'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
          (out, err) = cmd.communicate()
          if b"Bad configuration option" in err or b"Usage:" in err:
              has_cp = False
      except OSError:
          has_cp = False
  
      _HAS_CONTROLPERSIST[ssh_executable] = has_cp
      return has_cp
  
subject: Fix encoding error with path to ssh