From dae2a8939df14692b59d66b13c587a0a4197700e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Heimes Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:55:37 +0000 Subject: Merged revisions 62350-62355,62358-62359,62364-62365,62370,62372-62375,62378-62379,62381 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r62350 | nick.coghlan | 2008-04-15 12:25:31 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 1 line Issue 2439: add pkgutils.get_data() as a convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API (contributed by Paul Moore) ........ r62351 | nick.coghlan | 2008-04-15 12:28:14 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 1 line Add test file missing from rev 62350 ........ r62352 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-15 13:58:46 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Add myself to Doc/ACKS.txt ........ r62353 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-15 15:10:07 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 6 lines Add *,**,@ to index, as suggested by http://farmdev.com/thoughts/24/what-does-the-def-star-variable-or-def-asterisk-parameter-syntax-do-in-python-/ The right entry type to use isn't clear; operator seems wrong, because *,**,@ aren't being used in expressions here. I put them as 'statement'; 'syntax' might be better. ........ r62354 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-15 15:10:41 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 1 line Typo fix ........ r62355 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-15 22:51:18 +0200 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008) | 3 lines Fix for possible signed overflow: the behaviour of -LONG_MIN is undefined in ANSI C. ........ r62358 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2008-04-16 14:47:01 +0200 (Wed, 16 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Reformat to 80 columns prior to adding documentation. ........ r62359 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2008-04-16 14:57:43 +0200 (Wed, 16 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Add details about the return value for mmap.flush(). ........ r62364 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-04-17 12:48:31 +0200 (Thu, 17 Apr 2008) | 1 line Issue 2648: Add leading zero to money format recipe in the docs. ........ r62365 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2008-04-17 14:39:45 +0200 (Thu, 17 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Be consistent in the use of read-only. ........ r62370 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-17 22:44:06 +0200 (Thu, 17 Apr 2008) | 1 line Typo fixes ........ r62372 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-18 04:40:47 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 1 line Use correct parameter name ........ r62373 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-18 18:53:09 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 1 line #2654: fix typo ........ r62374 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-18 20:28:23 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 4 lines Remove personal note from Jim Roskind; it no longer applies, and the e-mail address is for a previous employer. Can we move the big long copyright statement into a sidebar or something? ........ r62375 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-18 20:39:55 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 1 line Rewrite introductory section, and remove old section. (It was already commented-out, but why keep it?) ........ r62378 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-18 22:35:46 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 1 line resolve issue 2014 ........ r62379 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-18 22:45:33 +0200 (Fri, 18 Apr 2008) | 2 lines Fix indentation in sysmodule.c ........ r62381 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-19 01:31:33 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 3 lines Some tests did not pass on repeated calls (regrtest -R::) Perform additional cleanup, mostly deleting from sys.modules, or clearing the warnings registry. ........ --- Lib/pkgutil.py | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) (limited to 'Lib/pkgutil.py') diff --git a/Lib/pkgutil.py b/Lib/pkgutil.py index 9c1d07c4ab9..ff3467ab7c4 100644 --- a/Lib/pkgutil.py +++ b/Lib/pkgutil.py @@ -542,3 +542,40 @@ def extend_path(path, name): f.close() return path + +def get_data(package, resource): + """Get a resource from a package. + + This is a wrapper round the PEP 302 loader get_data API. The package + argument should be the name of a package, in standard module format + (foo.bar). The resource argument should be in the form of a relative + filename, using '/' as the path separator. The parent directory name '..' + is not allowed, and nor is a rooted name (starting with a '/'). + + The function returns a binary string, which is the contents of the + specified resource. + + For packages located in the filesystem, which have already been imported, + this is the rough equivalent of + + d = os.path.dirname(sys.modules[package].__file__) + data = open(os.path.join(d, resource), 'rb').read() + + If the package cannot be located or loaded, or it uses a PEP 302 loader + which does not support get_data(), then None is returned. + """ + + loader = get_loader(package) + if loader is None or not hasattr(loader, 'get_data'): + return None + mod = sys.modules.get(package) or loader.load_module(package) + if mod is None or not hasattr(mod, '__file__'): + return None + + # Modify the resource name to be compatible with the loader.get_data + # signature - an os.path format "filename" starting with the dirname of + # the package's __file__ + parts = resource.split('/') + parts.insert(0, os.path.dirname(mod.__file__)) + resource_name = os.path.join(*parts) + return loader.get_data(resource_name) -- cgit v1.2.3