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diff --git a/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/client_utils/general_utils.py b/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/client_utils/general_utils.py
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+#!/router/bin/python
+
+import sys,site
+import os
+
+try:
+    import pwd
+except ImportError:
+    import getpass
+    pwd = None
+
+using_python_3 = True if sys.version_info.major == 3 else False
+
+
+def user_input():
+    if using_python_3:
+        return input()
+    else:
+        # using python version 2
+        return raw_input()
+
+def get_current_user():
+  if pwd:
+      return pwd.getpwuid( os.geteuid() ).pw_name
+  else:
+      return getpass.getuser()
+
+def import_module_list_by_path (modules_list):
+    assert(isinstance(modules_list, list))
+    for full_path in modules_list:
+        site.addsitedir(full_path)
+
+def find_path_to_pardir (pardir, base_path = os.getcwd() ):
+    """
+    Finds the absolute path for some parent dir `pardir`, starting from base_path
+
+    The request is only valid if the stop intitiator is the same client as the T-Rex run intitiator.
+            
+    :parameters:        
+        pardir : str
+            name of an upper-level directory to which we want to find an absolute path for
+        base_path : str
+            a full (usually nested) path from which we want to find a parent folder.
+
+            default value : **current working dir**
+
+    :return: 
+        string representation of the full path to 
+
+    """
+    components = base_path.split(os.sep)
+    return str.join(os.sep, components[:components.index(pardir)+1])
+    
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    pass