Live and verbose command output using Python subprocess

Question

I could not get it worked yet while working part of a large Python script, so I will try to explain the required part only.

I am trying to git clone some repository with shell command using Python subprocess. It does clone the repo but does not shows the live/verbose output.

Example script that I try to do that:

# cat subprocess_git.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import subprocess

pub_repo = 'https://github.com/githubtraining/hellogitworld.git'

p = subprocess.Popen('git clone ' + pub_repo, shell=True, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

while True:
        output = p.stdout.readline().decode()
        if output == '' and p.poll() is not None:
                break
        if output:
                print(output.strip())

I get an output like this:

# python3 subprocess_git.py
Cloning into 'hellogitworld'...

But the difference when running directly on shell:

# git clone https://github.com/githubtraining/hellogitworld.git
Cloning into 'hellogitworld'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 306, done.
remote: Total 306 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 306
Receiving objects: 100% (306/306), 95.82 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (69/69), done.

Is it possible to show all such output using Python subprocess?.

Live and verbose command output using Python subprocess

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