Gaudi.Main Namespace Reference

Classes
class	gaudimain

Functions
def	toOpt

Variables
tuple	log logging.getLogger(__name__)

Function Documentation

def Gaudi.Main.toOpt

(

value

)

Helper to convert values to old .opts format.

>>> print toOpt('some "text"')
"some \\"text\\""
>>> print toOpt('first\\nsecond')
"first
second"
>>> print toOpt({'a': [1, 2, '3']})
{"a": [1, 2, "3"]}

Definition at line 8 of file Main.py.

def toOpt(value):
    '''
    Helper to convert values to old .opts format.

    >>> print toOpt('some "text"')
    "some \\"text\\""
    >>> print toOpt('first\\nsecond')
    "first
    second"
    >>> print toOpt({'a': [1, 2, '3']})
    {"a": [1, 2, "3"]}
    '''
    if isinstance(value, basestring):
        return '"{0}"'.format(value.replace('"', '\\"'))
    elif isinstance(value, dict):
        return '{{{0}}}'.format(', '.join('{0}: {1}'.format(toOpt(k), toOpt(v))
                                          for k, v in value.iteritems()))
    elif hasattr(value, '__iter__'):
        return '[{0}]'.format(', '.join(map(toOpt, value)))
    else:
        return repr(value)