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- """text_file
-
- provides the TextFile class, which gives an interface to text files
- that (optionally) takes care of stripping comments, ignoring blank
- lines, and joining lines with backslashes."""
-
- # created 1999/01/12, Greg Ward
-
- __revision__ = "$Id: text_file.py,v 1.13 2000/09/16 18:33:36 gward Exp $"
-
- from types import *
- import sys, os, string
-
-
- class TextFile:
-
- """Provides a file-like object that takes care of all the things you
- commonly want to do when processing a text file that has some
- line-by-line syntax: strip comments (as long as "#" is your
- comment character), skip blank lines, join adjacent lines by
- escaping the newline (ie. backslash at end of line), strip
- leading and/or trailing whitespace. All of these are optional
- and independently controllable.
-
- Provides a 'warn()' method so you can generate warning messages that
- report physical line number, even if the logical line in question
- spans multiple physical lines. Also provides 'unreadline()' for
- implementing line-at-a-time lookahead.
-
- Constructor is called as:
-
- TextFile (filename=None, file=None, **options)
-
- It bombs (RuntimeError) if both 'filename' and 'file' are None;
- 'filename' should be a string, and 'file' a file object (or
- something that provides 'readline()' and 'close()' methods). It is
- recommended that you supply at least 'filename', so that TextFile
- can include it in warning messages. If 'file' is not supplied,
- TextFile creates its own using the 'open()' builtin.
-
- The options are all boolean, and affect the value returned by
- 'readline()':
- strip_comments [default: true]
- strip from "#" to end-of-line, as well as any whitespace
- leading up to the "#" -- unless it is escaped by a backslash
- lstrip_ws [default: false]
- strip leading whitespace from each line before returning it
- rstrip_ws [default: true]
- strip trailing whitespace (including line terminator!) from
- each line before returning it
- skip_blanks [default: true}
- skip lines that are empty *after* stripping comments and
- whitespace. (If both lstrip_ws and rstrip_ws are false,
- then some lines may consist of solely whitespace: these will
- *not* be skipped, even if 'skip_blanks' is true.)
- join_lines [default: false]
- if a backslash is the last non-newline character on a line
- after stripping comments and whitespace, join the following line
- to it to form one "logical line"; if N consecutive lines end
- with a backslash, then N+1 physical lines will be joined to
- form one logical line.
- collapse_join [default: false]
- strip leading whitespace from lines that are joined to their
- predecessor; only matters if (join_lines and not lstrip_ws)
-
- Note that since 'rstrip_ws' can strip the trailing newline, the
- semantics of 'readline()' must differ from those of the builtin file
- object's 'readline()' method! In particular, 'readline()' returns
- None for end-of-file: an empty string might just be a blank line (or
- an all-whitespace line), if 'rstrip_ws' is true but 'skip_blanks' is
- not."""
-
- default_options = { 'strip_comments': 1,
- 'skip_blanks': 1,
- 'lstrip_ws': 0,
- 'rstrip_ws': 1,
- 'join_lines': 0,
- 'collapse_join': 0,
- }
-
- def __init__ (self, filename=None, file=None, **options):
- """Construct a new TextFile object. At least one of 'filename'
- (a string) and 'file' (a file-like object) must be supplied.
- They keyword argument options are described above and affect
- the values returned by 'readline()'."""
-
- if filename is None and file is None:
- raise RuntimeError, \
- "you must supply either or both of 'filename' and 'file'"
-
- # set values for all options -- either from client option hash
- # or fallback to default_options
- for opt in self.default_options.keys():
- if options.has_key (opt):
- setattr (self, opt, options[opt])
-
- else:
- setattr (self, opt, self.default_options[opt])
-
- # sanity check client option hash
- for opt in options.keys():
- if not self.default_options.has_key (opt):
- raise KeyError, "invalid TextFile option '%s'" % opt
-
- if file is None:
- self.open (filename)
- else:
- self.filename = filename
- self.file = file
- self.current_line = 0 # assuming that file is at BOF!
-
- # 'linebuf' is a stack of lines that will be emptied before we
- # actually read from the file; it's only populated by an
- # 'unreadline()' operation
- self.linebuf = []
-
-
- def open (self, filename):
- """Open a new file named 'filename'. This overrides both the
- 'filename' and 'file' arguments to the constructor."""
-
- self.filename = filename
- self.file = open (self.filename, 'r')
- self.current_line = 0
-
-
- def close (self):
- """Close the current file and forget everything we know about it
- (filename, current line number)."""
-
- self.file.close ()
- self.file = None
- self.filename = None
- self.current_line = None
-
-
- def gen_error (self, msg, line=None):
- outmsg = []
- if line is None:
- line = self.current_line
- outmsg.append(self.filename + ", ")
- if type (line) in (ListType, TupleType):
- outmsg.append("lines %d-%d: " % tuple (line))
- else:
- outmsg.append("line %d: " % line)
- outmsg.append(str(msg))
- return string.join(outmsg, "")
-
-
- def error (self, msg, line=None):
- raise ValueError, "error: " + self.gen_error(msg, line)
-
- def warn (self, msg, line=None):
- """Print (to stderr) a warning message tied to the current logical
- line in the current file. If the current logical line in the
- file spans multiple physical lines, the warning refers to the
- whole range, eg. "lines 3-5". If 'line' supplied, it overrides
- the current line number; it may be a list or tuple to indicate a
- range of physical lines, or an integer for a single physical
- line."""
- sys.stderr.write("warning: " + self.gen_error(msg, line) + "\n")
-
-
- def readline (self):
- """Read and return a single logical line from the current file (or
- from an internal buffer if lines have previously been "unread"
- with 'unreadline()'). If the 'join_lines' option is true, this
- may involve reading multiple physical lines concatenated into a
- single string. Updates the current line number, so calling
- 'warn()' after 'readline()' emits a warning about the physical
- line(s) just read. Returns None on end-of-file, since the empty
- string can occur if 'rstrip_ws' is true but 'strip_blanks' is
- not."""
-
- # If any "unread" lines waiting in 'linebuf', return the top
- # one. (We don't actually buffer read-ahead data -- lines only
- # get put in 'linebuf' if the client explicitly does an
- # 'unreadline()'.
- if self.linebuf:
- line = self.linebuf[-1]
- del self.linebuf[-1]
- return line
-
- buildup_line = ''
-
- while 1:
- # read the line, make it None if EOF
- line = self.file.readline()
- if line == '': line = None
-
- if self.strip_comments and line:
-
- # Look for the first "#" in the line. If none, never
- # mind. If we find one and it's the first character, or
- # is not preceded by "\", then it starts a comment --
- # strip the comment, strip whitespace before it, and
- # carry on. Otherwise, it's just an escaped "#", so
- # unescape it (and any other escaped "#"'s that might be
- # lurking in there) and otherwise leave the line alone.
-
- pos = string.find (line, "#")
- if pos == -1: # no "#" -- no comments
- pass
-
- # It's definitely a comment -- either "#" is the first
- # character, or it's elsewhere and unescaped.
- elif pos == 0 or line[pos-1] != "\\":
- # Have to preserve the trailing newline, because it's
- # the job of a later step (rstrip_ws) to remove it --
- # and if rstrip_ws is false, we'd better preserve it!
- # (NB. this means that if the final line is all comment
- # and has no trailing newline, we will think that it's
- # EOF; I think that's OK.)
- eol = (line[-1] == '\n') and '\n' or ''
- line = line[0:pos] + eol
-
- # If all that's left is whitespace, then skip line
- # *now*, before we try to join it to 'buildup_line' --
- # that way constructs like
- # hello \\
- # # comment that should be ignored
- # there
- # result in "hello there".
- if string.strip(line) == "":
- continue
-
- else: # it's an escaped "#"
- line = string.replace (line, "\\#", "#")
-
-
- # did previous line end with a backslash? then accumulate
- if self.join_lines and buildup_line:
- # oops: end of file
- if line is None:
- self.warn ("continuation line immediately precedes "
- "end-of-file")
- return buildup_line
-
- if self.collapse_join:
- line = string.lstrip (line)
- line = buildup_line + line
-
- # careful: pay attention to line number when incrementing it
- if type (self.current_line) is ListType:
- self.current_line[1] = self.current_line[1] + 1
- else:
- self.current_line = [self.current_line,
- self.current_line+1]
- # just an ordinary line, read it as usual
- else:
- if line is None: # eof
- return None
-
- # still have to be careful about incrementing the line number!
- if type (self.current_line) is ListType:
- self.current_line = self.current_line[1] + 1
- else:
- self.current_line = self.current_line + 1
-
-
- # strip whitespace however the client wants (leading and
- # trailing, or one or the other, or neither)
- if self.lstrip_ws and self.rstrip_ws:
- line = string.strip (line)
- elif self.lstrip_ws:
- line = string.lstrip (line)
- elif self.rstrip_ws:
- line = string.rstrip (line)
-
- # blank line (whether we rstrip'ed or not)? skip to next line
- # if appropriate
- if (line == '' or line == '\n') and self.skip_blanks:
- continue
-
- if self.join_lines:
- if line[-1] == '\\':
- buildup_line = line[:-1]
- continue
-
- if line[-2:] == '\\\n':
- buildup_line = line[0:-2] + '\n'
- continue
-
- # well, I guess there's some actual content there: return it
- return line
-
- # readline ()
-
-
- def readlines (self):
- """Read and return the list of all logical lines remaining in the
- current file."""
-
- lines = []
- while 1:
- line = self.readline()
- if line is None:
- return lines
- lines.append (line)
-
-
- def unreadline (self, line):
- """Push 'line' (a string) onto an internal buffer that will be
- checked by future 'readline()' calls. Handy for implementing
- a parser with line-at-a-time lookahead."""
-
- self.linebuf.append (line)
-
-
- if __name__ == "__main__":
- test_data = """# test file
-
- line 3 \\
- # intervening comment
- continues on next line
- """
- # result 1: no fancy options
- result1 = map (lambda x: x + "\n", string.split (test_data, "\n")[0:-1])
-
- # result 2: just strip comments
- result2 = ["\n",
- "line 3 \\\n",
- " continues on next line\n"]
-
- # result 3: just strip blank lines
- result3 = ["# test file\n",
- "line 3 \\\n",
- "# intervening comment\n",
- " continues on next line\n"]
-
- # result 4: default, strip comments, blank lines, and trailing whitespace
- result4 = ["line 3 \\",
- " continues on next line"]
-
- # result 5: strip comments and blanks, plus join lines (but don't
- # "collapse" joined lines
- result5 = ["line 3 continues on next line"]
-
- # result 6: strip comments and blanks, plus join lines (and
- # "collapse" joined lines
- result6 = ["line 3 continues on next line"]
-
- def test_input (count, description, file, expected_result):
- result = file.readlines ()
- # result = string.join (result, '')
- if result == expected_result:
- print "ok %d (%s)" % (count, description)
- else:
- print "not ok %d (%s):" % (count, description)
- print "** expected:"
- print expected_result
- print "** received:"
- print result
-
-
- filename = "test.txt"
- out_file = open (filename, "w")
- out_file.write (test_data)
- out_file.close ()
-
- in_file = TextFile (filename, strip_comments=0, skip_blanks=0,
- lstrip_ws=0, rstrip_ws=0)
- test_input (1, "no processing", in_file, result1)
-
- in_file = TextFile (filename, strip_comments=1, skip_blanks=0,
- lstrip_ws=0, rstrip_ws=0)
- test_input (2, "strip comments", in_file, result2)
-
- in_file = TextFile (filename, strip_comments=0, skip_blanks=1,
- lstrip_ws=0, rstrip_ws=0)
- test_input (3, "strip blanks", in_file, result3)
-
- in_file = TextFile (filename)
- test_input (4, "default processing", in_file, result4)
-
- in_file = TextFile (filename, strip_comments=1, skip_blanks=1,
- join_lines=1, rstrip_ws=1)
- test_input (5, "join lines without collapsing", in_file, result5)
-
- in_file = TextFile (filename, strip_comments=1, skip_blanks=1,
- join_lines=1, rstrip_ws=1, collapse_join=1)
- test_input (6, "join lines with collapsing", in_file, result6)
-
- os.remove (filename)
-
-