# Copyright (c) 2010-2012 testtools developers. See LICENSE for details. __all__ = [ 'safe_hasattr', 'try_import', 'try_imports', ] import sys def try_import(name, alternative=None, error_callback=None): """Attempt to import ``name``. If it fails, return ``alternative``. When supporting multiple versions of Python or optional dependencies, it is useful to be able to try to import a module. :param name: The name of the object to import, e.g. ``os.path`` or ``os.path.join``. :param alternative: The value to return if no module can be imported. Defaults to None. :param error_callback: If non-None, a callable that is passed the ImportError when the module cannot be loaded. """ module_segments = name.split('.') last_error = None while module_segments: module_name = '.'.join(module_segments) try: module = __import__(module_name) except ImportError: last_error = sys.exc_info()[1] module_segments.pop() continue else: break else: if last_error is not None and error_callback is not None: error_callback(last_error) return alternative nonexistent = object() for segment in name.split('.')[1:]: module = getattr(module, segment, nonexistent) if module is nonexistent: if last_error is not None and error_callback is not None: error_callback(last_error) return alternative return module _RAISE_EXCEPTION = object() def try_imports(module_names, alternative=_RAISE_EXCEPTION, error_callback=None): """Attempt to import modules. Tries to import the first module in ``module_names``. If it can be imported, we return it. If not, we go on to the second module and try that. The process continues until we run out of modules to try. If none of the modules can be imported, either raise an exception or return the provided ``alternative`` value. :param module_names: A sequence of module names to try to import. :param alternative: The value to return if no module can be imported. If unspecified, we raise an ImportError. :param error_callback: If None, called with the ImportError for *each* module that fails to load. :raises ImportError: If none of the modules can be imported and no alternative value was specified. """ module_names = list(module_names) for module_name in module_names: module = try_import(module_name, error_callback=error_callback) if module: return module if alternative is _RAISE_EXCEPTION: raise ImportError( "Could not import any of: %s" % ', '.join(module_names)) return alternative def safe_hasattr(obj, attr, _marker=object()): """Does 'obj' have an attribute 'attr'? Use this rather than built-in hasattr, as the built-in swallows exceptions in some versions of Python and behaves unpredictably with respect to properties. """ return getattr(obj, attr, _marker) is not _marker def map_values(function, dictionary): """Map ``function`` across the values of ``dictionary``. :return: A dict with the same keys as ``dictionary``, where the value of each key ``k`` is ``function(dictionary[k])``. """ return dict((k, function(dictionary[k])) for k in dictionary) def filter_values(function, dictionary): """Filter ``dictionary`` by its values using ``function``.""" return dict((k, v) for k, v in dictionary.items() if function(v)) def dict_subtract(a, b): """Return the part of ``a`` that's not in ``b``.""" return dict((k, a[k]) for k in set(a) - set(b)) def list_subtract(a, b): """Return a list ``a`` without the elements of ``b``. If a particular value is in ``a`` twice and ``b`` once then the returned list then that value will appear once in the returned list. """ a_only = list(a) for x in b: if x in a_only: a_only.remove(x) return a_only