revset: add function to build dict of positional and keyword arguments Keyword arguments will be convenient for functions that will take more than one optional or boolean flags. For example, file(pattern[, subrepos=false]) subrepo([[pattern], status]) Because I don't think all functions should accept key=value syntax, getkwargs() does not support variadic functions such as 'ancestor(*changeset)'. The core logic is placed in the parser module because keyword arguments will be more useful in the templater, where functions take more options. Test cases will be added by the next patch.

revset: add parsing rule for key=value pair It will be used as an keyword argument. Note that our "=" operator is left-associative. In general, the assignment operator is right-associative, but we don't care because it isn't allowed to chain "=" operations.

import-checker: establish modern import convention We introduce a new convention for declaring imports and enforce it via the import checker script. The new convention is only active when absolute imports are used, which is currently nowhere. Keying off "from __future__ import absolute_import" to engage the new import convention seems like the easiest solution. It is also beneficial for Mercurial to use this mode because it means less work and ambiguity for the importer and potentially better performance due to fewer stat() system calls because the importer won't look for modules in relative paths unless explicitly asked. Once all files are converted to use absolute import, we can refactor this code to again only have a single import convention and we can require use of absolute import in the style checker. The rules for the new convention are documented in the docstring of the added function. Tests have been added to test-module-imports.t. Some tests are sensitive to newlines and source column position, which makes docstring testing difficult and/or impossible.