VMM/pycompat: is now a sub-package.
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
# Copyright (c) 2007 - 2010, Pascal Volk
# See COPYING for distribution information.
"""
VirtualMailManager
VirtualMailManager package initialization code
"""
import gettext
import os
import locale
from VirtualMailManager.constants.ERROR import \
NOT_EXECUTABLE, NO_SUCH_BINARY, NO_SUCH_DIRECTORY
from VirtualMailManager.constants.version import __author__, __date__, \
__version__
from VirtualMailManager.errors import VMMError
__all__ = [
# version information from VERSION
'__author__', '__date__', '__version__',
# defined stuff
'ENCODING', 'Configuration', 'exec_ok', 'expand_path', 'get_unicode',
'is_dir', 'set_configuration',
]
# Try to set all of the locales according to the current
# environment variables and get the character encoding.
try:
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
except locale.Error:
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C')
ENCODING = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
Configuration = None
gettext.install('vmm', '/usr/local/share/locale', unicode=1)
_ = lambda msg: msg
def set_configuration(cfg_obj):
"""Assigns the *cfg_obj* to the global `Configuration`.
*cfg_obj* has to be a `VirtualMailManager.Config.Config` instance."""
from VirtualMailManager.Config import Config
assert isinstance(cfg_obj, Config)
global Configuration
Configuration = cfg_obj
def get_unicode(string):
"""Converts `string` to `unicode`, if necessary."""
if isinstance(string, unicode):
return string
return unicode(string, ENCODING, 'replace')
def expand_path(path):
"""Expands paths, starting with ``.`` or ``~``, to an absolute path."""
if path.startswith('.'):
return os.path.abspath(path)
if path.startswith('~'):
return os.path.expanduser(path)
return path
def is_dir(path):
"""Checks if `path` is a directory.
Throws a `VMMError` if `path` is not a directory.
"""
path = expand_path(path)
if not os.path.isdir(path):
raise VMMError(_(u"'%s' is not a directory") % get_unicode(path),
NO_SUCH_DIRECTORY)
return path
def exec_ok(binary):
"""Checks if the `binary` exists and if it is executable.
Throws a `VMMError` if the `binary` isn't a file or is not
executable.
"""
binary = expand_path(binary)
if not os.path.isfile(binary):
raise VMMError(_(u"'%s' is not a file") % get_unicode(binary),
NO_SUCH_BINARY)
if not os.access(binary, os.X_OK):
raise VMMError(_(u"File is not executable: '%s'") %
get_unicode(binary), NOT_EXECUTABLE)
return binary
del _