"""
Useful support routines (for internal use).
These functions aren't really Zero Install specific; they're things we might
wish were in the standard library.
@since: 0.27
"""
# Copyright (C) 2007, Thomas Leonard
# See the README file for details, or visit http://0install.net.
import os, logging
def find_in_path(prog):
"""Search $PATH for prog.
If prog is an absolute path, return it unmodified.
@param prog: name of executable to find
@return: the full path of prog, or None if not found
@since: 0.27
"""
if os.path.isabs(prog): return prog
for d in os.environ['PATH'].split(':'):
path = os.path.join(d, prog)
if os.path.isfile(path):
return path
return None
def read_bytes(fd, nbytes, null_ok = False):
"""Read exactly nbytes from fd.
@param fd: file descriptor to read from
@param nbytes: number of bytes to read
@param null_ok: if True, it's OK to receive EOF immediately (we then return None)
@return: the bytes read
@raise Exception: if we received less than nbytes of data
"""
data = ''
while nbytes:
got = os.read(fd, nbytes)
if not got:
if null_ok and not data:
return None
raise Exception("Unexpected end-of-stream. Data so far %s; expecting %d bytes more."
% (repr(data), nbytes))
data += got
nbytes -= len(got)
logging.debug("Message received: %s" % repr(data))
return data
def pretty_size(size):
"""Format a size for printing.
@param size: the size in bytes
@type size: int (or None)
@return: the formatted size
@rtype: str
@since: 0.27"""
if size is None:
return '?'
if size < 2048:
return '%d bytes' % size
size = float(size)
for unit in ('Kb', 'Mb', 'Gb', 'Tb'):
size /= 1024
if size < 2048:
break
return '%.1f %s' % (size, unit)
def ro_rmtree(root):
"""Like shutil.rmtree, except that we also delete read-only items.
@param root: the root of the subtree to remove
@type root: str
@since: 0.28"""
import shutil
for main, dirs, files in os.walk(root):
os.chmod(main, 0700)
shutil.rmtree(root)
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