snakeoil.bash module

Functionality for reading bash like files

Please note that while this functionality can do variable interpolation, it strictly treats the source as non-executable code. It cannot parse subshells, variable additions, etc.

Its primary usage is for reading things like gentoo make.conf’s, or libtool .la files that are bash compatible, but non-executable.

exception snakeoil.bash.BashParseError(filename, line, errmsg=None)

Bases: Exception

Exception thrown when a handle being parsed isn’t valid bash.

snakeoil.bash.iter_read_bash(*a, **kw)

snakeoil.bash.read_bash(bash_source, allow_inline_comments=True, allow_line_cont=False, enum_line=False)

Iterate over a file honoring bash commenting rules and line continuations.

Note that it’s considered good behaviour to close filehandles, as such, either iterate fully through this, or use read_bash instead. Once the file object is no longer referenced the handle will be closed, but be proactive instead of relying on the garbage collector.

Parameters:

• bash_source – either a file to read from or a string holding the filename to open.

• allow_inline_comments – whether or not to prune characters after a # that isn’t at the start of a line.

• allow_line_cont – whether or not to respect line continuations

Returns:

yields lines w/ commenting stripped out

snakeoil.bash.read_bash_dict(bash_source, vars_dict=None, sourcing_command=None)

Read bash source, yielding a dict of vars.

Parameters:

• bash_source – either a file to read from or a string holding the filename to open

• vars_dict (dict or None) – initial ‘env’ for the sourcing. Is protected from modification.

• sourcing_command (callable) – controls whether a source command exists. If one does and is encountered, then this func is called.

Raises:

BashParseError – thrown if invalid syntax is encountered.

Returns:

dict representing the resultant env if bash executed the source.

snakeoil.bash.read_dict(bash_source, splitter='=', source_isiter=False, allow_inline_comments=True, strip=False, filename=None, ignore_errors=False)

Read key value pairs from a file, ignoring bash-style comments.

Parameters:

• splitter – the string to split on. Can be None to default to str.split’s default

• bash_source – either a file to read from, or a string holding the filename to open.

• allow_inline_comments – whether or not to prune characters after a # that isn’t at the start of a line.

• ignore_errors – parse errors are logged instead of raised

Raise:

BashParseError if there are parse errors found.