pysys.utils.misc

Miscellanous utilities such as pysys.utils.misc.compareVersions, pysys.utils.misc.setInstanceVariablesFromDict, and pysys.utils.misc.quoteString.

quoteString

pysys.utils.misc.quoteString(s)

Adds double quotation marks around the specified character or byte string, and additional escaping only if needed to make the meaning clear, but trying to avoid double-slashes unless actually needed since it makes paths harder to read.

If a byte string is provided then the repr() representation is used instead.

compareVersions

pysys.utils.misc.compareVersions(v1, v2)

Compares two alphanumeric dotted version strings to see which is more recent.

See pysys.process.user.ProcessUser.compareVersions for more details.

setInstanceVariablesFromDict

pysys.utils.misc.setInstanceVariablesFromDict(obj, d, errorOnMissingVariables=False)

Sets an instance variable for each item in the specified dictionary, with automatic conversion of bool/int/float/list[str] values from strings if a default value of that type was provided as a static variable on the object.

New in version 1.6.0.

Parameters

• obj (object) – Any Python object.

• d (dict[str,str]) – The properties to set

• errorOnMissingVariables (bool) – Set this to True if you want an exception to be raised if the dictionary contains a key for which is there no corresponding variable on obj.