view mercurial/policy.py @ 31553:56acc4250900

scmutil: add a simple key-value file helper

The purpose of the added class is to serve purposes like save files of shelve
or state files of shelve, rebase and histedit. Keys of these files can be
alphanumeric and start with letters, while values must not contain newlines.

In light of Mercurial's reluctancy to use Python's json module, this tries
to provide a reasonable alternative for a non-nested named data.
Comparing to current approach of storing state in plain text files, where
semantic meaning of lines of text is only determined by their oreder,
simple key-value file allows for reordering lines and thus helps handle
optional values.

Initial use-case I see for this is obs-shelve's shelve files. Later we
can possibly migrate state files to this approach.

The test is in a new file beause I did not figure out where to put it
within existing test suite. If you give me a better idea, I will gladly
follow it.

# policy.py - module policy logic for Mercurial.
#
# Copyright 2015 Gregory Szorc <[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.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os
import sys

# Rules for how modules can be loaded. Values are:
#
#    c - require C extensions
#    allow - allow pure Python implementation when C loading fails
#    cffi - required cffi versions (implemented within pure module)
#    cffi-allow - allow pure Python implementation if cffi version is missing
#    py - only load pure Python modules
#
# By default, require the C extensions for performance reasons.
policy = b'c'
policynoc = (b'cffi', b'cffi-allow', b'py')
policynocffi = (b'c', b'py')

try:
    from . import __modulepolicy__
    policy = __modulepolicy__.modulepolicy
except ImportError:
    pass

# PyPy doesn't load C extensions.
#
# The canonical way to do this is to test platform.python_implementation().
# But we don't import platform and don't bloat for it here.
if '__pypy__' in sys.builtin_module_names:
    policy = 'cffi'

# Our C extensions aren't yet compatible with Python 3. So use pure Python
# on Python 3 for now.
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    policy = b'py'

# Environment variable can always force settings.
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    if 'HGMODULEPOLICY' in os.environ:
        policy = os.environ['HGMODULEPOLICY'].encode('utf-8')
else:
    policy = os.environ.get('HGMODULEPOLICY', policy)