manifest: document return type of readfast()
I keep having to ponder out what readfast() means, and it always
surprises me. Document the return type in the docstring so that future
readers won't have to puzzle this out again.
from mercurial import util
def printifpresent(d, xs):
for x in xs:
present = x in d
print "'%s' in d: %s" % (x, present)
if present:
print "d['%s']: %s" % (x, d[x])
def test_lrucachedict():
d = util.lrucachedict(4)
d['a'] = 'va'
d['b'] = 'vb'
d['c'] = 'vc'
d['d'] = 'vd'
# all of these should be present
printifpresent(d, ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
# 'a' should be dropped because it was least recently used
d['e'] = 've'
printifpresent(d, ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'])
# touch entries in some order (get or set).
d['e']
d['c'] = 'vc2'
d['d']
d['b'] = 'vb2'
# 'e' should be dropped now
d['f'] = 'vf'
printifpresent(d, ['b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'])
d.clear()
printifpresent(d, ['b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'])
if __name__ == '__main__':
test_lrucachedict()