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authorW. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>2009-12-07 20:07:55 -0500
committerW. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>2009-12-07 20:07:55 -0500
commit49a7771336ce09f6d42c7699ef32aecea0e83182 (patch)
treef237c7413fb68e72b1d87b0ccc4c788944168f10 /libbe/util
parentc3bcafe12034d35f5c46f76a7dab97ab08b84dfd (diff)
downloadbugseverywhere-49a7771336ce09f6d42c7699ef32aecea0e83182.tar.gz
Initial directory restructuring to clarify dependencies
Diffstat (limited to 'libbe/util')
-rw-r--r--libbe/util/beuuid.py67
-rw-r--r--libbe/util/encoding.py66
-rw-r--r--libbe/util/subproc.py223
-rw-r--r--libbe/util/tree.py193
-rw-r--r--libbe/util/utility.py151
5 files changed, 700 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libbe/util/beuuid.py b/libbe/util/beuuid.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3a3b6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbe/util/beuuid.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
+# W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+"""
+Backwards compatibility support for Python 2.4. Once people give up
+on 2.4 ;), the uuid call should be merged into bugdir.py
+"""
+
+import libbe
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ import unittest
+
+
+try:
+ from uuid import uuid4 # Python >= 2.5
+ def uuid_gen():
+ id = uuid4()
+ idstr = id.urn
+ start = "urn:uuid:"
+ assert idstr.startswith(start)
+ return idstr[len(start):]
+except ImportError:
+ import os
+ import sys
+ from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+
+ def uuid_gen():
+ # Shell-out to system uuidgen
+ args = ['uuidgen', 'r']
+ try:
+ if sys.platform != "win32":
+ q = Popen(args, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
+ else:
+ # win32 don't have os.execvp() so have to run command in a shell
+ q = Popen(args, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE,
+ shell=True, cwd=cwd)
+ except OSError, e :
+ strerror = "%s\nwhile executing %s" % (e.args[1], args)
+ raise OSError, strerror
+ output, error = q.communicate()
+ status = q.wait()
+ if status != 0:
+ strerror = "%s\nwhile executing %s" % (status, args)
+ raise Exception, strerror
+ return output.rstrip('\n')
+
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ class UUIDtestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+ def testUUID_gen(self):
+ id = uuid_gen()
+ self.failUnless(len(id) == 36, "invalid UUID '%s'" % id)
+
+ suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(UUIDtestCase)
diff --git a/libbe/util/encoding.py b/libbe/util/encoding.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d09117f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbe/util/encoding.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Bugs Everywhere, a distributed bugtracker
+# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
+# W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+"""
+Support input/output/filesystem encodings (e.g. UTF-8).
+"""
+
+import codecs
+import locale
+import sys
+
+import libbe
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ import doctest
+
+
+ENCODING = None # override get_encoding() output by setting this
+
+def get_encoding():
+ """
+ Guess a useful input/output/filesystem encoding... Maybe we need
+ seperate encodings for input/output and filesystem? Hmm...
+ """
+ if ENCODING != None:
+ return ENCODING
+ encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or sys.getdefaultencoding()
+ if sys.platform != 'win32' or sys.version_info[:2] > (2, 3):
+ encoding = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)[1] or encoding
+ # Python 2.3 on windows doesn't know about 'XYZ' alias for 'cpXYZ'
+ return encoding
+
+def known_encoding(encoding):
+ """
+ >>> known_encoding("highly-unlikely-encoding")
+ False
+ >>> known_encoding(get_encoding())
+ True
+ """
+ try:
+ codecs.lookup(encoding)
+ return True
+ except LookupError:
+ return False
+
+def set_IO_stream_encodings(encoding):
+ sys.stdin = codecs.getreader(encoding)(sys.__stdin__)
+ sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(encoding)(sys.__stdout__)
+ sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter(encoding)(sys.__stderr__)
+
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ suite = doctest.DocTestSuite()
diff --git a/libbe/util/subproc.py b/libbe/util/subproc.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8806e26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbe/util/subproc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2009 W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+"""
+Functions for running external commands in subprocesses.
+"""
+
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+import sys
+
+import libbe
+from encoding import get_encoding
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ import doctest
+
+_MSWINDOWS = sys.platform == 'win32'
+_POSIX = not _MSWINDOWS
+
+if _POSIX == True:
+ import os
+ import select
+
+class CommandError(Exception):
+ def __init__(self, command, status, stdout=None, stderr=None):
+ strerror = ['Command failed (%d):\n %s\n' % (status, stderr),
+ 'while executing\n %s' % command]
+ Exception.__init__(self, '\n'.join(strerror))
+ self.command = command
+ self.status = status
+ self.stdout = stdout
+ self.stderr = stderr
+
+def invoke(args, stdin=None, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, expect=(0,),
+ cwd=None, unicode_output=True, verbose=False, encoding=None):
+ """
+ expect should be a tuple of allowed exit codes. cwd should be
+ the directory from which the command will be executed. When
+ unicode_output == True, convert stdout and stdin strings to
+ unicode before returing them.
+ """
+ if cwd == None:
+ cwd = '.'
+ if verbose == True:
+ print >> sys.stderr, '%s$ %s' % (cwd, ' '.join(args))
+ try :
+ if _POSIX:
+ q = Popen(args, stdin=PIPE, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr, cwd=cwd)
+ else:
+ assert _MSWINDOWS==True, 'invalid platform'
+ # win32 don't have os.execvp() so have to run command in a shell
+ q = Popen(args, stdin=PIPE, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr,
+ shell=True, cwd=cwd)
+ except OSError, e:
+ raise CommandError(args, status=e.args[0], stderr=e)
+ stdout,stderr = q.communicate(input=stdin)
+ status = q.wait()
+ if unicode_output == True:
+ if encoding == None:
+ encoding = get_encoding()
+ if stdout != None:
+ stdout = unicode(stdout, encoding)
+ if stderr != None:
+ stderr = unicode(stderr, encoding)
+ if verbose == True:
+ print >> sys.stderr, '%d\n%s%s' % (status, stdout, stderr)
+ if status not in expect:
+ raise CommandError(args, status, stdout, stderr)
+ return status, stdout, stderr
+
+class Pipe (object):
+ """
+ Simple interface for executing POSIX-style pipes based on the
+ subprocess module. The only complication is the adaptation of
+ subprocess.Popen._comminucate to listen to the stderrs of all
+ processes involved in the pipe, as well as the terminal process'
+ stdout. There are two implementations of Pipe._communicate, one
+ for MS Windows, and one for POSIX systems. The MS Windows
+ implementation is currently untested.
+
+ >>> p = Pipe([['find', '/etc/'], ['grep', '^/etc/ssh$']])
+ >>> p.stdout
+ '/etc/ssh\\n'
+ >>> p.status
+ 1
+ >>> p.statuses
+ [1, 0]
+ >>> p.stderrs # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
+ [...find: ...: Permission denied..., '']
+ """
+ def __init__(self, cmds, stdin=None):
+ # spawn processes
+ self._procs = []
+ for cmd in cmds:
+ if len(self._procs) != 0:
+ stdin = self._procs[-1].stdout
+ self._procs.append(Popen(cmd, stdin=stdin, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE))
+
+ self.stdout,self.stderrs = self._communicate(input=None)
+
+ # collect process statuses
+ self.statuses = []
+ self.status = 0
+ for proc in self._procs:
+ self.statuses.append(proc.wait())
+ if self.statuses[-1] != 0:
+ self.status = self.statuses[-1]
+
+ # Code excerpted from subprocess.Popen._communicate()
+ if _MSWINDOWS == True:
+ def _communicate(self, input=None):
+ assert input == None, 'stdin != None not yet supported'
+ # listen to each process' stderr
+ threads = []
+ std_X_arrays = []
+ for proc in self._procs:
+ stderr_array = []
+ thread = Thread(target=proc._readerthread,
+ args=(proc.stderr, stderr_array))
+ thread.setDaemon(True)
+ thread.start()
+ threads.append(thread)
+ std_X_arrays.append(stderr_array)
+
+ # also listen to the last processes stdout
+ stdout_array = []
+ thread = Thread(target=proc._readerthread,
+ args=(proc.stdout, stdout_array))
+ thread.setDaemon(True)
+ thread.start()
+ threads.append(thread)
+ std_X_arrays.append(stdout_array)
+
+ # join threads as they die
+ for thread in threads:
+ thread.join()
+
+ # read output from reader threads
+ std_X_strings = []
+ for std_X_array in std_X_arrays:
+ std_X_strings.append(std_X_array[0])
+
+ stdout = std_X_strings.pop(-1)
+ stderrs = std_X_strings
+ return (stdout, stderrs)
+ else:
+ assert _POSIX==True, 'invalid platform'
+ def _communicate(self, input=None):
+ read_set = []
+ write_set = []
+ read_arrays = []
+ stdout = None # Return
+ stderr = None # Return
+
+ if self._procs[0].stdin:
+ # Flush stdio buffer. This might block, if the user has
+ # been writing to .stdin in an uncontrolled fashion.
+ self._procs[0].stdin.flush()
+ if input:
+ write_set.append(self._procs[0].stdin)
+ else:
+ self._procs[0].stdin.close()
+ for proc in self._procs:
+ read_set.append(proc.stderr)
+ read_arrays.append([])
+ read_set.append(self._procs[-1].stdout)
+ read_arrays.append([])
+
+ input_offset = 0
+ while read_set or write_set:
+ try:
+ rlist, wlist, xlist = select.select(read_set, write_set, [])
+ except select.error, e:
+ if e.args[0] == errno.EINTR:
+ continue
+ raise
+ if self._procs[0].stdin in wlist:
+ # When select has indicated that the file is writable,
+ # we can write up to PIPE_BUF bytes without risk
+ # blocking. POSIX defines PIPE_BUF >= 512
+ chunk = input[input_offset : input_offset + 512]
+ bytes_written = os.write(self.stdin.fileno(), chunk)
+ input_offset += bytes_written
+ if input_offset >= len(input):
+ self._procs[0].stdin.close()
+ write_set.remove(self._procs[0].stdin)
+ if self._procs[-1].stdout in rlist:
+ data = os.read(self._procs[-1].stdout.fileno(), 1024)
+ if data == '':
+ self._procs[-1].stdout.close()
+ read_set.remove(self._procs[-1].stdout)
+ read_arrays[-1].append(data)
+ for i,proc in enumerate(self._procs):
+ if proc.stderr in rlist:
+ data = os.read(proc.stderr.fileno(), 1024)
+ if data == '':
+ proc.stderr.close()
+ read_set.remove(proc.stderr)
+ read_arrays[i].append(data)
+
+ # All data exchanged. Translate lists into strings.
+ read_strings = []
+ for read_array in read_arrays:
+ read_strings.append(''.join(read_array))
+
+ stdout = read_strings.pop(-1)
+ stderrs = read_strings
+ return (stdout, stderrs)
+
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ suite = doctest.DocTestSuite()
diff --git a/libbe/util/tree.py b/libbe/util/tree.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1daac44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbe/util/tree.py
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+# Bugs Everywhere, a distributed bugtracker
+# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
+# W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+"""
+Define a traversable tree structure.
+"""
+
+import libbe
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ import doctest
+
+class Tree(list):
+ """
+ Construct
+ +-b---d-g
+ a-+ +-e
+ +-c-+-f-h-i
+ with
+ >>> i = Tree(); i.n = "i"
+ >>> h = Tree([i]); h.n = "h"
+ >>> f = Tree([h]); f.n = "f"
+ >>> e = Tree(); e.n = "e"
+ >>> c = Tree([f,e]); c.n = "c"
+ >>> g = Tree(); g.n = "g"
+ >>> d = Tree([g]); d.n = "d"
+ >>> b = Tree([d]); b.n = "b"
+ >>> a = Tree(); a.n = "a"
+ >>> a.append(c)
+ >>> a.append(b)
+
+ >>> a.branch_len()
+ 5
+ >>> a.sort(key=lambda node : -node.branch_len())
+ >>> "".join([node.n for node in a.traverse()])
+ 'acfhiebdg'
+ >>> a.sort(key=lambda node : node.branch_len())
+ >>> "".join([node.n for node in a.traverse()])
+ 'abdgcefhi'
+ >>> "".join([node.n for node in a.traverse(depth_first=False)])
+ 'abcdefghi'
+ >>> for depth,node in a.thread():
+ ... print "%*s" % (2*depth+1, node.n)
+ a
+ b
+ d
+ g
+ c
+ e
+ f
+ h
+ i
+ >>> for depth,node in a.thread(flatten=True):
+ ... print "%*s" % (2*depth+1, node.n)
+ a
+ b
+ d
+ g
+ c
+ e
+ f
+ h
+ i
+ >>> a.has_descendant(g)
+ True
+ >>> c.has_descendant(g)
+ False
+ >>> a.has_descendant(a)
+ False
+ >>> a.has_descendant(a, match_self=True)
+ True
+ """
+ def __cmp__(self, other):
+ return cmp(id(self), id(other))
+
+ def __eq__(self, other):
+ return self.__cmp__(other) == 0
+
+ def __ne__(self, other):
+ return self.__cmp__(other) != 0
+
+ def branch_len(self):
+ """
+ Exhaustive search every time == SLOW.
+
+ Use only on small trees, or reimplement by overriding
+ child-addition methods to allow accurate caching.
+
+ For the tree
+ +-b---d-g
+ a-+ +-e
+ +-c-+-f-h-i
+ this method returns 5.
+ """
+ if len(self) == 0:
+ return 1
+ else:
+ return 1 + max([child.branch_len() for child in self])
+
+ def sort(self, *args, **kwargs):
+ """
+ This method can be slow, e.g. on a branch_len() sort, since a
+ node at depth N from the root has it's branch_len() method
+ called N times.
+ """
+ list.sort(self, *args, **kwargs)
+ for child in self:
+ child.sort(*args, **kwargs)
+
+ def traverse(self, depth_first=True):
+ """
+ Note: you might want to sort() your tree first.
+ """
+ if depth_first == True:
+ yield self
+ for child in self:
+ for descendant in child.traverse():
+ yield descendant
+ else: # breadth first, Wikipedia algorithm
+ # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search
+ queue = [self]
+ while len(queue) > 0:
+ node = queue.pop(0)
+ yield node
+ queue.extend(node)
+
+ def thread(self, flatten=False):
+ """
+ When flatten==False, the depth of any node is one greater than
+ the depth of its parent. That way the inheritance is
+ explicit, but you can end up with highly indented threads.
+
+ When flatten==True, the depth of any node is only greater than
+ the depth of its parent when there is a branch, and the node
+ is not the last child. This can lead to ancestry ambiguity,
+ but keeps the total indentation down. E.g.
+ +-b +-b-c
+ a-+-c and a-+
+ +-d-e-f +-d-e-f
+ would both produce (after sorting by branch_len())
+ (0, a)
+ (1, b)
+ (1, c)
+ (0, d)
+ (0, e)
+ (0, f)
+ """
+ stack = [] # ancestry of the current node
+ if flatten == True:
+ depthDict = {}
+
+ for node in self.traverse(depth_first=True):
+ while len(stack) > 0 \
+ and id(node) not in [id(c) for c in stack[-1]]:
+ stack.pop(-1)
+ if flatten == False:
+ depth = len(stack)
+ else:
+ if len(stack) == 0:
+ depth = 0
+ else:
+ parent = stack[-1]
+ depth = depthDict[id(parent)]
+ if len(parent) > 1 and node != parent[-1]:
+ depth += 1
+ depthDict[id(node)] = depth
+ yield (depth,node)
+ stack.append(node)
+
+ def has_descendant(self, descendant, depth_first=True, match_self=False):
+ if descendant == self:
+ return match_self
+ for d in self.traverse(depth_first):
+ if descendant == d:
+ return True
+ return False
+
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ suite = doctest.DocTestSuite()
diff --git a/libbe/util/utility.py b/libbe/util/utility.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f954422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbe/util/utility.py
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Aaron Bentley and Panometrics, Inc.
+# Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
+# W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+"""
+Assorted utility functions that don't fit in anywhere else.
+"""
+
+import calendar
+import codecs
+import os
+import shutil
+import tempfile
+import time
+import types
+
+import libbe
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ import doctest
+
+class InvalidXML(ValueError):
+ """
+ Invalid XML while parsing for a *.from_xml() method.
+ type - string identifying *, e.g. "bug", "comment", ...
+ element - ElementTree.Element instance which caused the error
+ error - string describing the error
+ """
+ def __init__(self, type, element, error):
+ msg = 'Invalid %s xml: %s\n %s\n' \
+ % (type, error, ElementTree.tostring(element))
+ ValueError.__init__(self, msg)
+ self.type = type
+ self.element = element
+ self.error = error
+
+def search_parent_directories(path, filename):
+ """
+ Find the file (or directory) named filename in path or in any
+ of path's parents.
+
+ e.g.
+ search_parent_directories("/a/b/c", ".be")
+ will return the path to the first existing file from
+ /a/b/c/.be
+ /a/b/.be
+ /a/.be
+ /.be
+ or None if none of those files exist.
+ """
+ path = os.path.realpath(path)
+ assert os.path.exists(path)
+ old_path = None
+ while True:
+ check_path = os.path.join(path, filename)
+ if os.path.exists(check_path):
+ return check_path
+ if path == old_path:
+ return None
+ old_path = path
+ path = os.path.dirname(path)
+
+class Dir (object):
+ "A temporary directory for testing use"
+ def __init__(self):
+ self.path = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="BEtest")
+ self.removed = False
+ def cleanup(self):
+ if self.removed == False:
+ shutil.rmtree(self.path)
+ self.removed = True
+ def __call__(self):
+ return self.path
+
+RFC_2822_TIME_FMT = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000"
+
+
+def time_to_str(time_val):
+ """Convert a time value into an RFC 2822-formatted string. This format
+ lacks sub-second data.
+ >>> time_to_str(0)
+ 'Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000'
+ """
+ return time.strftime(RFC_2822_TIME_FMT, time.gmtime(time_val))
+
+def str_to_time(str_time):
+ """Convert an RFC 2822-fomatted string into a time value.
+ >>> str_to_time("Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000")
+ 0
+ >>> q = time.time()
+ >>> str_to_time(time_to_str(q)) == int(q)
+ True
+ >>> str_to_time("Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -1000")
+ 36000
+ """
+ timezone_str = str_time[-5:]
+ if timezone_str != "+0000":
+ str_time = str_time.replace(timezone_str, "+0000")
+ time_val = calendar.timegm(time.strptime(str_time, RFC_2822_TIME_FMT))
+ timesign = -int(timezone_str[0]+"1") # "+" -> time_val ahead of GMT
+ timezone_tuple = time.strptime(timezone_str[1:], "%H%M")
+ timezone = timezone_tuple.tm_hour*3600 + timezone_tuple.tm_min*60
+ return time_val + timesign*timezone
+
+def handy_time(time_val):
+ return time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M", time.localtime(time_val))
+
+def time_to_gmtime(str_time):
+ """Convert an RFC 2822-fomatted string to a GMT string.
+ >>> time_to_gmtime("Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -1000")
+ 'Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000'
+ """
+ time_val = str_to_time(str_time)
+ return time_to_str(time_val)
+
+def iterable_full_of_strings(value, alternative=None):
+ """
+ Require an iterable full of strings.
+ >>> iterable_full_of_strings([])
+ True
+ >>> iterable_full_of_strings(["abc", "def", u"hij"])
+ True
+ >>> iterable_full_of_strings(["abc", None, u"hij"])
+ False
+ >>> iterable_full_of_strings(None, alternative=None)
+ True
+ """
+ if value == alternative:
+ return True
+ elif not hasattr(value, "__iter__"):
+ return False
+ for x in value:
+ if type(x) not in types.StringTypes:
+ return False
+ return True
+
+if libbe.TESTING == True:
+ suite = doctest.DocTestSuite()