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1 """A generic class to build line-oriented command interpreters.
3 Interpreters constructed with this class obey the following conventions:
5 1. End of file on input is processed as the command 'EOF'.
6 2. A command is parsed out of each line by collecting the prefix composed
7 of characters in the identchars member.
8 3. A command `foo' is dispatched to a method 'do_foo()'; the do_ method
9 is passed a single argument consisting of the remainder of the line.
10 4. Typing an empty line repeats the last command. (Actually, it calls the
11 method `emptyline', which may be overridden in a subclass.)
12 5. There is a predefined `help' method. Given an argument `topic', it
13 calls the command `help_topic'. With no arguments, it lists all topics
14 with defined help_ functions, broken into up to three topics; documented
15 commands, miscellaneous help topics, and undocumented commands.
16 6. The command '?' is a synonym for `help'. The command '!' is a synonym
17 for `shell', if a do_shell method exists.
18 7. If completion is enabled, completing commands will be done automatically,
19 and completing of commands args is done by calling complete_foo() with
20 arguments text, line, begidx, endidx. text is string we are matching
21 against, all returned matches must begin with it. line is the current
22 input line (lstripped), begidx and endidx are the beginning and end
23 indexes of the text being matched, which could be used to provide
24 different completion depending upon which position the argument is in.
26 The `default' method may be overridden to intercept commands for which there
27 is no do_ method.
29 The `completedefault' method may be overridden to intercept completions for
30 commands that have no complete_ method.
32 The data member `self.ruler' sets the character used to draw separator lines
33 in the help messages. If empty, no ruler line is drawn. It defaults to "=".
35 If the value of `self.intro' is nonempty when the cmdloop method is called,
36 it is printed out on interpreter startup. This value may be overridden
37 via an optional argument to the cmdloop() method.
39 The data members `self.doc_header', `self.misc_header', and
40 `self.undoc_header' set the headers used for the help function's
41 listings of documented functions, miscellaneous topics, and undocumented
42 functions respectively.
44 These interpreters use raw_input; thus, if the readline module is loaded,
45 they automatically support Emacs-like command history and editing features.
46 """
48 import string
50 __all__ = ["Cmd"]
52 PROMPT = '(Cmd) '
53 IDENTCHARS = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_'
55 class Cmd:
56 """A simple framework for writing line-oriented command interpreters.
58 These are often useful for test harnesses, administrative tools, and
59 prototypes that will later be wrapped in a more sophisticated interface.
61 A Cmd instance or subclass instance is a line-oriented interpreter
62 framework. There is no good reason to instantiate Cmd itself; rather,
63 it's useful as a superclass of an interpreter class you define yourself
64 in order to inherit Cmd's methods and encapsulate action methods.
66 """
67 prompt = PROMPT
68 identchars = IDENTCHARS
69 ruler = '='
70 lastcmd = ''
71 intro = None
72 doc_leader = ""
73 doc_header = "Documented commands (type help <topic>):"
74 misc_header = "Miscellaneous help topics:"
75 undoc_header = "Undocumented commands:"
76 nohelp = "*** No help on %s"
77 use_rawinput = 1
79 def __init__(self, completekey='tab', stdin=None, stdout=None):
80 """Instantiate a line-oriented interpreter framework.
82 The optional argument 'completekey' is the readline name of a
83 completion key; it defaults to the Tab key. If completekey is
84 not None and the readline module is available, command completion
85 is done automatically. The optional arguments stdin and stdout
86 specify alternate input and output file objects; if not specified,
87 sys.stdin and sys.stdout are used.
89 """
90 import sys
91 if stdin is not None:
92 self.stdin = stdin
93 else:
94 self.stdin = sys.stdin
95 if stdout is not None:
96 self.stdout = stdout
97 else:
98 self.stdout = sys.stdout
99 self.cmdqueue = []
100 self.completekey = completekey
102 def cmdloop(self, intro=None):
103 """Repeatedly issue a prompt, accept input, parse an initial prefix
104 off the received input, and dispatch to action methods, passing them
105 the remainder of the line as argument.
109 self.preloop()
110 if self.use_rawinput and self.completekey:
111 try:
112 import readline
113 self.old_completer = readline.get_completer()
114 readline.set_completer(self.complete)
115 readline.parse_and_bind(self.completekey+": complete")
116 except ImportError:
117 pass
118 try:
119 if intro is not None:
120 self.intro = intro
121 if self.intro:
122 self.stdout.write(str(self.intro)+"\n")
123 stop = None
124 while not stop:
125 if self.cmdqueue:
126 line = self.cmdqueue.pop(0)
127 else:
128 if self.use_rawinput:
129 try:
130 line = raw_input(self.prompt)
131 except EOFError:
132 line = 'EOF'
133 else:
134 self.stdout.write(self.prompt)
135 self.stdout.flush()
136 line = self.stdin.readline()
137 if not len(line):
138 line = 'EOF'
139 else:
140 line = line[:-1] # chop \n
141 line = self.precmd(line)
142 stop = self.onecmd(line)
143 stop = self.postcmd(stop, line)
144 self.postloop()
145 finally:
146 if self.use_rawinput and self.completekey:
147 try:
148 import readline
149 readline.set_completer(self.old_completer)
150 except ImportError:
151 pass
154 def precmd(self, line):
155 """Hook method executed just before the command line is
156 interpreted, but after the input prompt is generated and issued.
159 return line
161 def postcmd(self, stop, line):
162 """Hook method executed just after a command dispatch is finished."""
163 return stop
165 def preloop(self):
166 """Hook method executed once when the cmdloop() method is called."""
167 pass
169 def postloop(self):
170 """Hook method executed once when the cmdloop() method is about to
171 return.
174 pass
176 def parseline(self, line):
177 """Parse the line into a command name and a string containing
178 the arguments. Returns a tuple containing (command, args, line).
179 'command' and 'args' may be None if the line couldn't be parsed.
181 line = line.strip()
182 if not line:
183 return None, None, line
184 elif line[0] == '?':
185 line = 'help ' + line[1:]
186 elif line[0] == '!':
187 if hasattr(self, 'do_shell'):
188 line = 'shell ' + line[1:]
189 else:
190 return None, None, line
191 i, n = 0, len(line)
192 while i < n and line[i] in self.identchars: i = i+1
193 cmd, arg = line[:i], line[i:].strip()
194 return cmd, arg, line
196 def onecmd(self, line):
197 """Interpret the argument as though it had been typed in response
198 to the prompt.
200 This may be overridden, but should not normally need to be;
201 see the precmd() and postcmd() methods for useful execution hooks.
202 The return value is a flag indicating whether interpretation of
203 commands by the interpreter should stop.
206 cmd, arg, line = self.parseline(line)
207 if not line:
208 return self.emptyline()
209 if cmd is None:
210 return self.default(line)
211 self.lastcmd = line
212 if cmd == '':
213 return self.default(line)
214 else:
215 try:
216 func = getattr(self, 'do_' + cmd)
217 except AttributeError:
218 return self.default(line)
219 return func(arg)
221 def emptyline(self):
222 """Called when an empty line is entered in response to the prompt.
224 If this method is not overridden, it repeats the last nonempty
225 command entered.
228 if self.lastcmd:
229 return self.onecmd(self.lastcmd)
231 def default(self, line):
232 """Called on an input line when the command prefix is not recognized.
234 If this method is not overridden, it prints an error message and
235 returns.
238 self.stdout.write('*** Unknown syntax: %s\n'%line)
240 def completedefault(self, *ignored):
241 """Method called to complete an input line when no command-specific
242 complete_*() method is available.
244 By default, it returns an empty list.
247 return []
249 def completenames(self, text, *ignored):
250 dotext = 'do_'+text
251 return [a[3:] for a in self.get_names() if a.startswith(dotext)]
253 def complete(self, text, state):
254 """Return the next possible completion for 'text'.
256 If a command has not been entered, then complete against command list.
257 Otherwise try to call complete_<command> to get list of completions.
259 if state == 0:
260 import readline
261 origline = readline.get_line_buffer()
262 line = origline.lstrip()
263 stripped = len(origline) - len(line)
264 begidx = readline.get_begidx() - stripped
265 endidx = readline.get_endidx() - stripped
266 if begidx>0:
267 cmd, args, foo = self.parseline(line)
268 if cmd == '':
269 compfunc = self.completedefault
270 else:
271 try:
272 compfunc = getattr(self, 'complete_' + cmd)
273 except AttributeError:
274 compfunc = self.completedefault
275 else:
276 compfunc = self.completenames
277 self.completion_matches = compfunc(text, line, begidx, endidx)
278 try:
279 return self.completion_matches[state]
280 except IndexError:
281 return None
283 def get_names(self):
284 # Inheritance says we have to look in class and
285 # base classes; order is not important.
286 names = []
287 classes = [self.__class__]
288 while classes:
289 aclass = classes.pop(0)
290 if aclass.__bases__:
291 classes = classes + list(aclass.__bases__)
292 names = names + dir(aclass)
293 return names
295 def complete_help(self, *args):
296 return self.completenames(*args)
298 def do_help(self, arg):
299 if arg:
300 # XXX check arg syntax
301 try:
302 func = getattr(self, 'help_' + arg)
303 except AttributeError:
304 try:
305 doc=getattr(self, 'do_' + arg).__doc__
306 if doc:
307 self.stdout.write("%s\n"%str(doc))
308 return
309 except AttributeError:
310 pass
311 self.stdout.write("%s\n"%str(self.nohelp % (arg,)))
312 return
313 func()
314 else:
315 names = self.get_names()
316 cmds_doc = []
317 cmds_undoc = []
318 help = {}
319 for name in names:
320 if name[:5] == 'help_':
321 help[name[5:]]=1
322 names.sort()
323 # There can be duplicates if routines overridden
324 prevname = ''
325 for name in names:
326 if name[:3] == 'do_':
327 if name == prevname:
328 continue
329 prevname = name
330 cmd=name[3:]
331 if cmd in help:
332 cmds_doc.append(cmd)
333 del help[cmd]
334 elif getattr(self, name).__doc__:
335 cmds_doc.append(cmd)
336 else:
337 cmds_undoc.append(cmd)
338 self.stdout.write("%s\n"%str(self.doc_leader))
339 self.print_topics(self.doc_header, cmds_doc, 15,80)
340 self.print_topics(self.misc_header, help.keys(),15,80)
341 self.print_topics(self.undoc_header, cmds_undoc, 15,80)
343 def print_topics(self, header, cmds, cmdlen, maxcol):
344 if cmds:
345 self.stdout.write("%s\n"%str(header))
346 if self.ruler:
347 self.stdout.write("%s\n"%str(self.ruler * len(header)))
348 self.columnize(cmds, maxcol-1)
349 self.stdout.write("\n")
351 def columnize(self, list, displaywidth=80):
352 """Display a list of strings as a compact set of columns.
354 Each column is only as wide as necessary.
355 Columns are separated by two spaces (one was not legible enough).
357 if not list:
358 self.stdout.write("<empty>\n")
359 return
360 nonstrings = [i for i in range(len(list))
361 if not isinstance(list[i], str)]
362 if nonstrings:
363 raise TypeError, ("list[i] not a string for i in %s" %
364 ", ".join(map(str, nonstrings)))
365 size = len(list)
366 if size == 1:
367 self.stdout.write('%s\n'%str(list[0]))
368 return
369 # Try every row count from 1 upwards
370 for nrows in range(1, len(list)):
371 ncols = (size+nrows-1) // nrows
372 colwidths = []
373 totwidth = -2
374 for col in range(ncols):
375 colwidth = 0
376 for row in range(nrows):
377 i = row + nrows*col
378 if i >= size:
379 break
380 x = list[i]
381 colwidth = max(colwidth, len(x))
382 colwidths.append(colwidth)
383 totwidth += colwidth + 2
384 if totwidth > displaywidth:
385 break
386 if totwidth <= displaywidth:
387 break
388 else:
389 nrows = len(list)
390 ncols = 1
391 colwidths = [0]
392 for row in range(nrows):
393 texts = []
394 for col in range(ncols):
395 i = row + nrows*col
396 if i >= size:
397 x = ""
398 else:
399 x = list[i]
400 texts.append(x)
401 while texts and not texts[-1]:
402 del texts[-1]
403 for col in range(len(texts)):
404 texts[col] = texts[col].ljust(colwidths[col])
405 self.stdout.write("%s\n"%str(" ".join(texts)))