dulwich/dulwich/misc.py

# misc.py -- For dealing with python2.4 oddness
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"""Misc utilities to work with python <2.6.

These utilities can all be deleted when dulwich decides it wants to stop
support for python <2.6.
"""
try:
    import hashlib
except ImportError:
    import sha

try:
    from urlparse import parse_qs
except ImportError:
    from cgi import parse_qs

import struct


class defaultdict(dict):
    """A python 2.4 equivalent of collections.defaultdict."""

    def __init__(self, default_factory=None, *a, **kw):
        if (default_factory is not None and
            not hasattr(default_factory, '__call__')):
            raise TypeError('first argument must be callable')
        dict.__init__(self, *a, **kw)
        self.default_factory = default_factory

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        try:
            return dict.__getitem__(self, key)
        except KeyError:
            return self.__missing__(key)

    def __missing__(self, key):
        if self.default_factory is None:
            raise KeyError(key)
        self[key] = value = self.default_factory()
        return value

    def __reduce__(self):
        if self.default_factory is None:
            args = tuple()
        else:
            args = self.default_factory,
        return type(self), args, None, None, self.items()

    def copy(self):
        return self.__copy__()

    def __copy__(self):
        return type(self)(self.default_factory, self)

    def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
        import copy
        return type(self)(self.default_factory,
                          copy.deepcopy(self.items()))
    def __repr__(self):
        return 'defaultdict(%s, %s)' % (self.default_factory,
                                        dict.__repr__(self))


def make_sha(source=''):
    """A python2.4 workaround for the sha/hashlib module fiasco."""
    try:
        return hashlib.sha1(source)
    except NameError:
        sha1 = sha.sha(source)
        return sha1


def unpack_from(fmt, buf, offset=0):
    """A python2.4 workaround for struct missing unpack_from."""
    try:
        return struct.unpack_from(fmt, buf, offset)
    except AttributeError:
        b = buf[offset:offset+struct.calcsize(fmt)]
        return struct.unpack(fmt, b)