""" Utilities for writing command line tools. $Id$ Copyright (C) 2010--2011 Internet Systems Consortium ("ISC") Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. """ import cmd, glob, os.path, traceback try: import readline have_readline = True except ImportError: have_readline = False class Cmd(cmd.Cmd): """ Customized subclass of Python cmd module. """ emptyline_repeats_last_command = False EOF_exits_command_loop = True identchars = cmd.IDENTCHARS + "/-." histfile = None def __init__(self, argv = None): cmd.Cmd.__init__(self) if argv: self.onecmd(" ".join(argv)) else: self.cmdloop_with_history() def onecmd(self, line): """ Wrap error handling around cmd.Cmd.onecmd(). Might want to do something kinder than showing a traceback, eventually. """ try: return cmd.Cmd.onecmd(self, line) except SystemExit: raise except Exception: traceback.print_exc() def do_EOF(self, arg): """ Exit program. """ if self.EOF_exits_command_loop and self.prompt: print return self.EOF_exits_command_loop def do_exit(self, arg): """ Exit program. """ return True do_quit = do_exit def emptyline(self): """ Handle an empty line. cmd module default is to repeat the last command, which I find to be violation of the principal of least astonishment, so my preference is that an empty line does nothing. """ if self.emptyline_repeats_last_command: cmd.Cmd.emptyline(self) def filename_complete(self, text, line, begidx, endidx): """ Filename completion handler, with hack to restore what I consider the normal (bash-like) behavior when one hits the completion key and there's only one match. """ result = glob.glob(text + "*") if len(result) == 1: path = result.pop() if os.path.isdir(path) or (os.path.islink(path) and os.path.isdir(os.path.join(path, "."))): result.append(path + os.path.sep) else: result.append(path + " ") return result def completenames(self, text, *ignored): """ Command name completion handler, with hack to restore what I consider the normal (bash-like) behavior when one hits the completion key and there's only one match. """ result = set(cmd.Cmd.completenames(self, text, *ignored)) if len(result) == 1: result.add(result.pop() + " ") return list(result) def help_help(self): """ Type "help [topic]" for help on a command, or just "help" for a list of commands. """ self.stdout.write(self.help_help.__doc__ + "\n") def complete_help(self, *args): """ Better completion function for help command arguments. """ text = args[0] names = self.get_names() result = [] for prefix in ("do_", "help_"): result.extend(s[len(prefix):] for s in names if s.startswith(prefix + text)) return result if have_readline: def cmdloop_with_history(self): """ Better command loop, with history file and tweaked readline completion delimiters. """ old_completer_delims = readline.get_completer_delims() if self.histfile is not None: try: readline.read_history_file(self.histfile) except IOError: pass try: readline.set_completer_delims("".join(set(old_completer_delims) - set(self.identchars))) self.cmdloop() finally: if self.histfile is not None and readline.get_current_history_length(): readline.write_history_file(self.histfile) readline.set_completer_delims(old_completer_delims) else: cmdloop_with_history = cmd.Cmd.cmdloop def yes_or_no(prompt, default = None, require_full_word = False): """ Ask a yes-or-no question. """ prompt = prompt.rstrip() + _yes_or_no_prompts[default] while True: answer = raw_input(prompt).strip().lower() if not answer and default is not None: return default if answer == "yes" or (not require_full_word and answer.startswith("y")): return True if answer == "no" or (not require_full_word and answer.startswith("n")): return False print 'Please answer "yes" or "no"' _yes_or_no_prompts = { True : ' ("yes" or "no" ["yes"]) ', False : ' ("yes" or "no" ["no"]) ', None : ' ("yes" or "no") ' }