mercurial/policy.py

config: guard against setconfig specifying unicode values on py3

This was leading to some difficult to trace problems because the
values were set in one place, but then blew up much later in the
program. Exploding violently with an assertion seems reasonable here.

# 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 = 'c'
policynoc = ('cffi', 'cffi-allow', 'py')
policynocffi = ('c', '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 = 'py'

# Environment variable can always force settings.
policy = os.environ.get('HGMODULEPOLICY', policy)