view mercurial/thirdparty/attr/converters.py @ 36681:340e4b711df7

bdiff: avoid pointer arithmetic on void*

MSVC 2008 complains:

  mercurial/cext/bdiff.c(106) : error C2036: 'void *' : unknown size
  mercurial/cext/bdiff.c(107) : error C2036: 'void *' : unknown size

Maybe it's a gcc extension?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37460579/error-c2036-void-unknown-size

"""
Commonly useful converters.
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function


def optional(converter):
    """
    A converter that allows an attribute to be optional. An optional attribute
    is one which can be set to ``None``.

    :param callable converter: the converter that is used for non-``None``
        values.

    ..  versionadded:: 17.1.0
    """

    def optional_converter(val):
        if val is None:
            return None
        return converter(val)

    return optional_converter