tests/readlink.py

repoview: extract a factory function of proxy class

This makes sure that dynamically-created class objects are isolated from
local binding of repo instances. The type cache is moved to module level
as it isn't tied to each instance.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import errno
import os
import sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print(f, '->', os.readlink(f))
    except OSError as err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL:
            raise
        print(f, '->', f, 'not a symlink')

sys.exit(0)