root/asynwsgi/trunk/pkg_info.py

PKG_INFO_BASENAME='pkg-info.rst'
PKG_INFO_FN=None
PKG_INFO=None
"""python setup.py / python .egg distribution boiler plate utilities

For reasons that should be obvious this can not be in its own package. Some
exmples of use, assuming you place a copy of this file allong side your
setup.py and use pkg-info.rst for your build meta information.

A setup.py that gets its release meta data from a .rst format plain text file.

execfile('pkg_info.py', globals())
setup(
    name=PKG_INFO['Name'][0],
    version=PKG_INFO['Version'][0],
    provides=PKG_INFO.get('Provides',PKG_INFO['Name'])[0],
    install_requires=PKG_INFO.get('Requires',[]),
    description=PKG_INFO['Summary'][0],
    license=PKG_INFO['License'][0],
    author=PKG_INFO['Author'][0],
    author_email=PKG_INFO['Author-email'][0],
    package_dir = {'':'lib'},
    packages = find_packages('lib', exclude=(
        'ez_setup','develop', '*.tests','*.tests.*','tests.*', 'tests'))
)

Activation of a distribution in a particular source tree in preference to 
an existing install (or python setup.py develop install) with the same name
and "better" version::

pkg_info_py_fn = join(
        dirname(dirname(abspath(normpath(expanduser(__file__))))),
        'pkg_info.py'
        )
if isfile(pkg_info_py_fn):
    ns = globals().copy()
    ns.update(dict(
        __file__=pkg_info_py_fn,
        __use_this_source_version__=True)
        )
    execfile(pkg_info_py_fn, ns)

# go ahead with normal application & dependent imports

"""

def get_info(data=None, fn=None, fileobj=None):
    import re
    info={}
    data = data or fn and file(fn).read() or fileobj and fileobj.read()
    for k,v,_ in re.findall(
        r'(?ims)^:?(?P<key>[a-z][\w\-_ ]*):\s*'
         '(?P<value>.*?'
         '(?=(\Z|\n^:?[a-z][\w\-_ ]*:)))',
         data):
        info.setdefault(k,[]).append(v)
    return info

def read_info(relativeto=__file__, fn=PKG_INFO_BASENAME):
    from os.path import expanduser, join, abspath, normpath, dirname
    from os.path import isfile, isdir
    relativeto=abspath(normpath(expanduser(relativeto)))
    if isfile(relativeto):
        relativeto=dirname(relativeto)
    assert isdir(relativeto)
    pkg_info_fn=join(relativeto, fn)
    pkg_info=get_info(fn=pkg_info_fn)
    return pkg_info_fn, pkg_info
try:
    PKG_INFO_FN, PKG_INFO = read_info()
except (IOError, OSError):
    from traceback import print_exc
    print_exc()


def use_source_dist(project_name, distdir, ws=None, search_path=None):
    from os.path import isdir
    from operator import itemgetter
    assert isdir(distdir), '"%s" is not a directory' % distdir
    import pkg_resources
    if ws is None:
        ws = pkg_resources.working_set
    if search_path is None:
        search_path = sys.path
    pruned = remove_projects(ws, search_path,
            pkg_resources.safe_name(project_name)
            )
    if pruned:
        print 'Pruned: %s' % ', '.join(map(itemgetter(0), pruned))
    else:
        print 'No potentialy conflicting versions exist for "%s"' % project_name

    ws.add_entry(distdir)
    dist = pkg_resources.get_distribution(project_name)
    assert dist
    print 'added:', dist.project_name, dist.location


def yield_dist_entries(ws):
    seen = {}
    for item in ws.entries:
        for key in ws.entry_keys[item]:
            if key not in seen:
                seen[key]=1
                yield item, key, ws.by_key[key]


def remove_projects(ws=None, search_path=None, *project_names):
    """Explicitly remove all named projects from the working set.

    With a normal setuptools environment it is dificult to have *both*
    a python setup.py develop/install of a project and an arbitrary non
    installed development source tree side by side.

    In the development source tree, to force use of the python modules in
    that tree, first call this function to remove all 'normal' installs 
    from both sys.path and pkg_resources.working_set

    """
    import pkg_resources

    if ws is None:
        ws = pkg_resources.working_set
    if search_path is None:
        search_path = sys.path
    project_names = set(map(pkg_resources.safe_name, project_names))
    seen=set([])
    entry_prune = []
    pth_prune = set([])
    pruned = []
    for e, k, d in list(yield_dist_entries(ws)):
        if e in seen:
            continue
        seen.add(e)
        if d.project_name not in project_names:
            continue
        if e in ws.entry_keys:
            ws.entry_keys[e][:] = [
                    kk for kk in ws.entry_keys[e]
                    if k != kk
                    ]
            if not ws.entry_keys[e]:
                del ws.entry_keys[e]
        if k in ws.by_key:
            del ws.by_key[k]
        pruned.append((e, k, d))
        pth_prune.add(e)
        #pth_prune.add(d.location)

    search_path[:] = [pth for pth in sys.path if pth not in pth_prune]
    ws.entries[:] = [ent for ent in ws.entries if ent not in pth_prune]
    return pruned

try:
    if __use_this_source_version__:
        from os.path import dirname
        # Assumes __file__ is set appropriately; which causes the
        # automatic call of read_info (above) to do the "right thing"
        use_source_dist(PKG_INFO['Name'][0], dirname(__file__))
except NameError:
    pass
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