mercurial/py3kcompat.py

mq: remove a mutable default argument

Mutable default arguments are know to the state of California to cause bugs. The
underlying function already handle "None" as an option value, so we do not need
to do anything else.

# py3kcompat.py - compatibility definitions for running hg in py3k
#
# Copyright 2010 Renato Cunha <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

import builtins

from numbers import Number

def bytesformatter(format, args):
    '''Custom implementation of a formatter for bytestrings.

    This function currently relies on the string formatter to do the
    formatting and always returns bytes objects.

    >>> bytesformatter(20, 10)
    0
    >>> bytesformatter('unicode %s, %s!', ('string', 'foo'))
    b'unicode string, foo!'
    >>> bytesformatter(b'test %s', 'me')
    b'test me'
    >>> bytesformatter('test %s', 'me')
    b'test me'
    >>> bytesformatter(b'test %s', b'me')
    b'test me'
    >>> bytesformatter('test %s', b'me')
    b'test me'
    >>> bytesformatter('test %d: %s', (1, b'result'))
    b'test 1: result'
    '''
    # The current implementation just converts from bytes to unicode, do
    # what's needed and then convert the results back to bytes.
    # Another alternative is to use the Python C API implementation.
    if isinstance(format, Number):
        # If the fixer erroneously passes a number remainder operation to
        # bytesformatter, we just return the correct operation
        return format % args
    if isinstance(format, bytes):
        format = format.decode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')
    if isinstance(args, bytes):
        args = args.decode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')
    if isinstance(args, tuple):
        newargs = []
        for arg in args:
            if isinstance(arg, bytes):
                arg = arg.decode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')
            newargs.append(arg)
        args = tuple(newargs)
    ret = format % args
    return ret.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')
builtins.bytesformatter = bytesformatter

origord = builtins.ord
def fakeord(char):
    if isinstance(char, int):
        return char
    return origord(char)
builtins.ord = fakeord

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import doctest
    doctest.testmod()