add LazyConfig.prepend

IPython/config/loader.py

@@ -1,812 +1,821 b''
 """A simple configuration system.
 
 Inheritance diagram:
 
 .. inheritance-diagram:: IPython.config.loader
    :parts: 3
 
 Authors
 -------
 * Brian Granger
 * Fernando Perez
 * Min RK
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2008-2011  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 import __builtin__ as builtin_mod
 import argparse
 import copy
 import os
 import re
 import sys
 
 from IPython.utils.path import filefind, get_ipython_dir
 from IPython.utils import py3compat, warn
 from IPython.utils.encoding import DEFAULT_ENCODING
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import HasTraits, List, Any, TraitError
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Exceptions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 class ConfigError(Exception):
     pass
 
 class ConfigLoaderError(ConfigError):
     pass
 
 class ConfigFileNotFound(ConfigError):
     pass
 
 class ArgumentError(ConfigLoaderError):
     pass
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Argparse fix
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Unfortunately argparse by default prints help messages to stderr instead of
 # stdout.  This makes it annoying to capture long help screens at the command
 # line, since one must know how to pipe stderr, which many users don't know how
 # to do.  So we override the print_help method with one that defaults to
 # stdout and use our class instead.
 
 class ArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
     """Simple argparse subclass that prints help to stdout by default."""
 
     def print_help(self, file=None):
         if file is None:
             file = sys.stdout
         return super(ArgumentParser, self).print_help(file)
 
     print_help.__doc__ = argparse.ArgumentParser.print_help.__doc__
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Config class for holding config information
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class LazyConfigValue(HasTraits):
     """Proxy object for exposing methods on configurable containers
     
     Exposes:
     
     - append, extend, insert on lists
     - update on dicts
     - update, add on sets
     """
     
     _value = None
     
     # list methods
     _extend = List()
+    _prepend = List()
     
     def append(self, obj):
         self._extend.append(obj)
     
     def extend(self, other):
         self._extend.extend(other)
     
+    def prepend(self, other):
+        """like list.extend, but for the front"""
+        self._prepend[:0] = other
+    
     _inserts = List()
     def insert(self, index, other):
         if not isinstance(index, int):
             raise TypeError("An integer is required")
         self._inserts.append((index, other))
     
     # dict methods
     # update is used for both dict and set
     _update = Any()
     def update(self, other):
         if self._update is None:
             if isinstance(other, dict):
                 self._update = {}
             else:
                 self._update = set()
         self._update.update(other)
     
     # set methods
     def add(self, obj):
         self.update({obj})
     
     def get_value(self, initial):
         """construct the value from the initial one
         
         after applying any insert / extend / update changes
         """
         if self._value is not None:
             return self._value
         value = copy.deepcopy(initial)
         if isinstance(value, list):
             for idx, obj in self._inserts:
                 value.insert(idx, obj)
+            value[:0] = self._prepend
             value.extend(self._extend)
+        
         elif isinstance(value, dict):
             if self._update:
                 value.update(self._update)
         elif isinstance(value, set):
             if self._update:
                 value.update(self._update)
         self._value = value
         return value
     
     def to_dict(self):
         """return JSONable dict form of my data
         
-        Currently update as dict or set, extend as list, and inserts as list of tuples.
+        Currently update as dict or set, extend, prepend as lists, and inserts as list of tuples.
         """
         d = {}
         if self._update:
             d['update'] = self._update
         if self._extend:
             d['extend'] = self._extend
+        if self._prepend:
+            d['prepend'] = self._prepend
         elif self._inserts:
             d['inserts'] = self._inserts
         return d
 
 
 class Config(dict):
     """An attribute based dict that can do smart merges."""
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
         dict.__init__(self, *args, **kwds)
         # This sets self.__dict__ = self, but it has to be done this way
         # because we are also overriding __setattr__.
         dict.__setattr__(self, '__dict__', self)
         self._ensure_subconfig()
     
     def _ensure_subconfig(self):
         """ensure that sub-dicts that should be Config objects are
         
         casts dicts that are under section keys to Config objects,
         which is necessary for constructing Config objects from dict literals.
         """
         for key in self:
             obj = self[key]
             if self._is_section_key(key) \
                     and isinstance(obj, dict) \
                     and not isinstance(obj, Config):
                 dict.__setattr__(self, key, Config(obj))
     
     def _merge(self, other):
         """deprecated alias, use Config.merge()"""
         self.merge(other)
     
     def merge(self, other):
         """merge another config object into this one"""
         to_update = {}
         for k, v in other.iteritems():
             if k not in self:
                 to_update[k] = v
             else: # I have this key
                 if isinstance(v, Config) and isinstance(self[k], Config):
                     # Recursively merge common sub Configs
                     self[k].merge(v)
                 else:
                     # Plain updates for non-Configs
                     to_update[k] = v
 
         self.update(to_update)
 
     def _is_section_key(self, key):
         if key[0].upper()==key[0] and not key.startswith('_'):
             return True
         else:
             return False
 
     def __contains__(self, key):
         # allow nested contains of the form `Section.key in config`
         if '.' in key:
             first, remainder = key.split('.', 1)
             if first not in self:
                 return False
             return remainder in self[first]
         
         # we always have Sections
         if self._is_section_key(key):
             return True
         else:
             return super(Config, self).__contains__(key)
     # .has_key is deprecated for dictionaries.
     has_key = __contains__
 
     def _has_section(self, key):
         if self._is_section_key(key):
             if super(Config, self).__contains__(key):
                 return True
         return False
 
     def copy(self):
         return type(self)(dict.copy(self))
 
     def __copy__(self):
         return self.copy()
 
     def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
         import copy
         return type(self)(copy.deepcopy(self.items()))
     
     def __getitem__(self, key):
         # We cannot use directly self._is_section_key, because it triggers
         # infinite recursion on top of PyPy. Instead, we manually fish the
         # bound method.
         is_section_key = self.__class__._is_section_key.__get__(self)
 
         # Because we use this for an exec namespace, we need to delegate
         # the lookup of names in __builtin__ to itself.  This means
         # that you can't have section or attribute names that are
         # builtins.
         try:
             return getattr(builtin_mod, key)
         except AttributeError:
             pass
         if is_section_key(key):
             try:
                 return dict.__getitem__(self, key)
             except KeyError:
                 c = Config()
                 dict.__setitem__(self, key, c)
                 return c
         else:
             try:
                 return dict.__getitem__(self, key)
             except KeyError:
                 # undefined
                 v = LazyConfigValue()
                 dict.__setitem__(self, key, v)
                 return v
             
 
     def __setitem__(self, key, value):
         if self._is_section_key(key):
             if not isinstance(value, Config):
                 raise ValueError('values whose keys begin with an uppercase '
                                  'char must be Config instances: %r, %r' % (key, value))
         else:
             dict.__setitem__(self, key, value)
 
     def __getattr__(self, key):
         try:
             return self.__getitem__(key)
         except KeyError as e:
             raise AttributeError(e)
 
     def __setattr__(self, key, value):
         try:
             self.__setitem__(key, value)
         except KeyError as e:
             raise AttributeError(e)
 
     def __delattr__(self, key):
         try:
             dict.__delitem__(self, key)
         except KeyError as e:
             raise AttributeError(e)
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Config loading classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 class ConfigLoader(object):
     """A object for loading configurations from just about anywhere.
 
     The resulting configuration is packaged as a :class:`Struct`.
 
     Notes
     -----
     A :class:`ConfigLoader` does one thing: load a config from a source
     (file, command line arguments) and returns the data as a :class:`Struct`.
     There are lots of things that :class:`ConfigLoader` does not do.  It does
     not implement complex logic for finding config files.  It does not handle
     default values or merge multiple configs.  These things need to be
     handled elsewhere.
     """
 
     def __init__(self):
         """A base class for config loaders.
 
         Examples
         --------
 
         >>> cl = ConfigLoader()
         >>> config = cl.load_config()
         >>> config
         {}
         """
         self.clear()
 
     def clear(self):
         self.config = Config()
 
     def load_config(self):
         """Load a config from somewhere, return a :class:`Config` instance.
 
         Usually, this will cause self.config to be set and then returned.
         However, in most cases, :meth:`ConfigLoader.clear` should be called
         to erase any previous state.
         """
         self.clear()
         return self.config
 
 
 class FileConfigLoader(ConfigLoader):
     """A base class for file based configurations.
 
     As we add more file based config loaders, the common logic should go
     here.
     """
     pass
 
 
 class PyFileConfigLoader(FileConfigLoader):
     """A config loader for pure python files.
 
     This calls execfile on a plain python file and looks for attributes
     that are all caps.  These attribute are added to the config Struct.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, filename, path=None):
         """Build a config loader for a filename and path.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         filename : str
             The file name of the config file.
         path : str, list, tuple
             The path to search for the config file on, or a sequence of
             paths to try in order.
         """
         super(PyFileConfigLoader, self).__init__()
         self.filename = filename
         self.path = path
         self.full_filename = ''
         self.data = None
 
     def load_config(self):
         """Load the config from a file and return it as a Struct."""
         self.clear()
         try:
             self._find_file()
         except IOError as e:
             raise ConfigFileNotFound(str(e))
         self._read_file_as_dict()
         self._convert_to_config()
         return self.config
 
     def _find_file(self):
         """Try to find the file by searching the paths."""
         self.full_filename = filefind(self.filename, self.path)
 
     def _read_file_as_dict(self):
         """Load the config file into self.config, with recursive loading."""
         # This closure is made available in the namespace that is used
         # to exec the config file.  It allows users to call
         # load_subconfig('myconfig.py') to load config files recursively.
         # It needs to be a closure because it has references to self.path
         # and self.config.  The sub-config is loaded with the same path
         # as the parent, but it uses an empty config which is then merged
         # with the parents.
 
         # If a profile is specified, the config file will be loaded
         # from that profile
 
         def load_subconfig(fname, profile=None):
             # import here to prevent circular imports
             from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir, ProfileDirError
             if profile is not None:
                 try:
                     profile_dir = ProfileDir.find_profile_dir_by_name(
                             get_ipython_dir(),
                             profile,
                     )
                 except ProfileDirError:
                     return
                 path = profile_dir.location
             else:
                 path = self.path
             loader = PyFileConfigLoader(fname, path)
             try:
                 sub_config = loader.load_config()
             except ConfigFileNotFound:
                 # Pass silently if the sub config is not there. This happens
                 # when a user s using a profile, but not the default config.
                 pass
             else:
                 self.config.merge(sub_config)
 
         # Again, this needs to be a closure and should be used in config
         # files to get the config being loaded.
         def get_config():
             return self.config
 
         namespace = dict(
             load_subconfig=load_subconfig,
             get_config=get_config,
             __file__=self.full_filename,
         )
         fs_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'ascii'
         conf_filename = self.full_filename.encode(fs_encoding)
         py3compat.execfile(conf_filename, namespace)
 
     def _convert_to_config(self):
         if self.data is None:
             ConfigLoaderError('self.data does not exist')
 
 
 class CommandLineConfigLoader(ConfigLoader):
     """A config loader for command line arguments.
 
     As we add more command line based loaders, the common logic should go
     here.
     """
 
     def _exec_config_str(self, lhs, rhs):
         """execute self.config.<lhs> = <rhs>
         
         * expands ~ with expanduser
         * tries to assign with raw eval, otherwise assigns with just the string,
           allowing `--C.a=foobar` and `--C.a="foobar"` to be equivalent.  *Not*
           equivalent are `--C.a=4` and `--C.a='4'`.
         """
         rhs = os.path.expanduser(rhs)
         try:
             # Try to see if regular Python syntax will work. This
             # won't handle strings as the quote marks are removed
             # by the system shell.
             value = eval(rhs)
         except (NameError, SyntaxError):
             # This case happens if the rhs is a string.
             value = rhs
 
         exec u'self.config.%s = value' % lhs
 
     def _load_flag(self, cfg):
         """update self.config from a flag, which can be a dict or Config"""
         if isinstance(cfg, (dict, Config)):
             # don't clobber whole config sections, update
             # each section from config:
             for sec,c in cfg.iteritems():
                 self.config[sec].update(c)
         else:
             raise TypeError("Invalid flag: %r" % cfg)
 
 # raw --identifier=value pattern
 # but *also* accept '-' as wordsep, for aliases
 # accepts:  --foo=a
 #           --Class.trait=value
 #           --alias-name=value
 # rejects:  -foo=value
 #           --foo
 #           --Class.trait
 kv_pattern = re.compile(r'\-\-[A-Za-z][\w\-]*(\.[\w\-]+)*\=.*')
 
 # just flags, no assignments, with two *or one* leading '-'
 # accepts:  --foo
 #           -foo-bar-again
 # rejects:  --anything=anything
 #           --two.word
 
 flag_pattern = re.compile(r'\-\-?\w+[\-\w]*$')
 
 class KeyValueConfigLoader(CommandLineConfigLoader):
     """A config loader that loads key value pairs from the command line.
 
     This allows command line options to be gives in the following form::
 
         ipython --profile="foo" --InteractiveShell.autocall=False
     """
 
     def __init__(self, argv=None, aliases=None, flags=None):
         """Create a key value pair config loader.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         argv : list
             A list that has the form of sys.argv[1:] which has unicode
             elements of the form u"key=value". If this is None (default),
             then sys.argv[1:] will be used.
         aliases : dict
             A dict of aliases for configurable traits.
             Keys are the short aliases, Values are the resolved trait.
             Of the form: `{'alias' : 'Configurable.trait'}`
         flags : dict
             A dict of flags, keyed by str name. Vaues can be Config objects,
             dicts, or "key=value" strings.  If Config or dict, when the flag
             is triggered, The flag is loaded as `self.config.update(m)`.
 
         Returns
         -------
         config : Config
             The resulting Config object.
 
         Examples
         --------
 
             >>> from IPython.config.loader import KeyValueConfigLoader
             >>> cl = KeyValueConfigLoader()
             >>> d = cl.load_config(["--A.name='brian'","--B.number=0"])
             >>> sorted(d.items())
             [('A', {'name': 'brian'}), ('B', {'number': 0})]
         """
         self.clear()
         if argv is None:
             argv = sys.argv[1:]
         self.argv = argv
         self.aliases = aliases or {}
         self.flags = flags or {}
 
 
     def clear(self):
         super(KeyValueConfigLoader, self).clear()
         self.extra_args = []
 
 
     def _decode_argv(self, argv, enc=None):
         """decode argv if bytes, using stin.encoding, falling back on default enc"""
         uargv = []
         if enc is None:
             enc = DEFAULT_ENCODING
         for arg in argv:
             if not isinstance(arg, unicode):
                 # only decode if not already decoded
                 arg = arg.decode(enc)
             uargv.append(arg)
         return uargv
 
 
     def load_config(self, argv=None, aliases=None, flags=None):
         """Parse the configuration and generate the Config object.
 
         After loading, any arguments that are not key-value or
         flags will be stored in self.extra_args - a list of
         unparsed command-line arguments.  This is used for
         arguments such as input files or subcommands.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         argv : list, optional
             A list that has the form of sys.argv[1:] which has unicode
             elements of the form u"key=value". If this is None (default),
             then self.argv will be used.
         aliases : dict
             A dict of aliases for configurable traits.
             Keys are the short aliases, Values are the resolved trait.
             Of the form: `{'alias' : 'Configurable.trait'}`
         flags : dict
             A dict of flags, keyed by str name. Values can be Config objects
             or dicts.  When the flag is triggered, The config is loaded as
             `self.config.update(cfg)`.
         """
         self.clear()
         if argv is None:
             argv = self.argv
         if aliases is None:
             aliases = self.aliases
         if flags is None:
             flags = self.flags
 
         # ensure argv is a list of unicode strings:
         uargv = self._decode_argv(argv)
         for idx,raw in enumerate(uargv):
             # strip leading '-'
             item = raw.lstrip('-')
 
             if raw == '--':
                 # don't parse arguments after '--'
                 # this is useful for relaying arguments to scripts, e.g.
                 # ipython -i foo.py --matplotlib=qt -- args after '--' go-to-foo.py
                 self.extra_args.extend(uargv[idx+1:])
                 break
 
             if kv_pattern.match(raw):
                 lhs,rhs = item.split('=',1)
                 # Substitute longnames for aliases.
                 if lhs in aliases:
                     lhs = aliases[lhs]
                 if '.' not in lhs:
                     # probably a mistyped alias, but not technically illegal
                     warn.warn("Unrecognized alias: '%s', it will probably have no effect."%lhs)
                 try:
                     self._exec_config_str(lhs, rhs)
                 except Exception:
                     raise ArgumentError("Invalid argument: '%s'" % raw)
 
             elif flag_pattern.match(raw):
                 if item in flags:
                     cfg,help = flags[item]
                     self._load_flag(cfg)
                 else:
                     raise ArgumentError("Unrecognized flag: '%s'"%raw)
             elif raw.startswith('-'):
                 kv = '--'+item
                 if kv_pattern.match(kv):
                     raise ArgumentError("Invalid argument: '%s', did you mean '%s'?"%(raw, kv))
                 else:
                     raise ArgumentError("Invalid argument: '%s'"%raw)
             else:
                 # keep all args that aren't valid in a list,
                 # in case our parent knows what to do with them.
                 self.extra_args.append(item)
         return self.config
 
 class ArgParseConfigLoader(CommandLineConfigLoader):
     """A loader that uses the argparse module to load from the command line."""
 
     def __init__(self, argv=None, aliases=None, flags=None, *parser_args, **parser_kw):
         """Create a config loader for use with argparse.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         argv : optional, list
           If given, used to read command-line arguments from, otherwise
           sys.argv[1:] is used.
 
         parser_args : tuple
           A tuple of positional arguments that will be passed to the
           constructor of :class:`argparse.ArgumentParser`.
 
         parser_kw : dict
           A tuple of keyword arguments that will be passed to the
           constructor of :class:`argparse.ArgumentParser`.
 
         Returns
         -------
         config : Config
             The resulting Config object.
         """
         super(CommandLineConfigLoader, self).__init__()
         self.clear()
         if argv is None:
             argv = sys.argv[1:]
         self.argv = argv
         self.aliases = aliases or {}
         self.flags = flags or {}
 
         self.parser_args = parser_args
         self.version = parser_kw.pop("version", None)
         kwargs = dict(argument_default=argparse.SUPPRESS)
         kwargs.update(parser_kw)
         self.parser_kw = kwargs
 
     def load_config(self, argv=None, aliases=None, flags=None):
         """Parse command line arguments and return as a Config object.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
 
         args : optional, list
           If given, a list with the structure of sys.argv[1:] to parse
           arguments from. If not given, the instance's self.argv attribute
           (given at construction time) is used."""
         self.clear()
         if argv is None:
             argv = self.argv
         if aliases is None:
             aliases = self.aliases
         if flags is None:
             flags = self.flags
         self._create_parser(aliases, flags)
         self._parse_args(argv)
         self._convert_to_config()
         return self.config
 
     def get_extra_args(self):
         if hasattr(self, 'extra_args'):
             return self.extra_args
         else:
             return []
 
     def _create_parser(self, aliases=None, flags=None):
         self.parser = ArgumentParser(*self.parser_args, **self.parser_kw)
         self._add_arguments(aliases, flags)
 
     def _add_arguments(self, aliases=None, flags=None):
         raise NotImplementedError("subclasses must implement _add_arguments")
 
     def _parse_args(self, args):
         """self.parser->self.parsed_data"""
         # decode sys.argv to support unicode command-line options
         enc = DEFAULT_ENCODING
         uargs = [py3compat.cast_unicode(a, enc) for a in args]
         self.parsed_data, self.extra_args = self.parser.parse_known_args(uargs)
 
     def _convert_to_config(self):
         """self.parsed_data->self.config"""
         for k, v in vars(self.parsed_data).iteritems():
             exec "self.config.%s = v"%k in locals(), globals()
 
 class KVArgParseConfigLoader(ArgParseConfigLoader):
     """A config loader that loads aliases and flags with argparse,
     but will use KVLoader for the rest.  This allows better parsing
     of common args, such as `ipython -c 'print 5'`, but still gets
     arbitrary config with `ipython --InteractiveShell.use_readline=False`"""
 
     def _add_arguments(self, aliases=None, flags=None):
         self.alias_flags = {}
         # print aliases, flags
         if aliases is None:
             aliases = self.aliases
         if flags is None:
             flags = self.flags
         paa = self.parser.add_argument
         for key,value in aliases.iteritems():
             if key in flags:
                 # flags
                 nargs = '?'
             else:
                 nargs = None
             if len(key) is 1:
                 paa('-'+key, '--'+key, type=unicode, dest=value, nargs=nargs)
             else:
                 paa('--'+key, type=unicode, dest=value, nargs=nargs)
         for key, (value, help) in flags.iteritems():
             if key in self.aliases:
                 #
                 self.alias_flags[self.aliases[key]] = value
                 continue
             if len(key) is 1:
                 paa('-'+key, '--'+key, action='append_const', dest='_flags', const=value)
             else:
                 paa('--'+key, action='append_const', dest='_flags', const=value)
 
     def _convert_to_config(self):
         """self.parsed_data->self.config, parse unrecognized extra args via KVLoader."""
         # remove subconfigs list from namespace before transforming the Namespace
         if '_flags' in self.parsed_data:
             subcs = self.parsed_data._flags
             del self.parsed_data._flags
         else:
             subcs = []
 
         for k, v in vars(self.parsed_data).iteritems():
             if v is None:
                 # it was a flag that shares the name of an alias
                 subcs.append(self.alias_flags[k])
             else:
                 # eval the KV assignment
                 self._exec_config_str(k, v)
 
         for subc in subcs:
             self._load_flag(subc)
 
         if self.extra_args:
             sub_parser = KeyValueConfigLoader()
             sub_parser.load_config(self.extra_args)
             self.config.merge(sub_parser.config)
             self.extra_args = sub_parser.extra_args
 
 
 def load_pyconfig_files(config_files, path):
     """Load multiple Python config files, merging each of them in turn.
 
     Parameters
     ==========
     config_files : list of str
         List of config files names to load and merge into the config.
     path : unicode
         The full path to the location of the config files.
     """
     config = Config()
     for cf in config_files:
         loader = PyFileConfigLoader(cf, path=path)
         try:
             next_config = loader.load_config()
         except ConfigFileNotFound:
             pass
         except:
             raise
         else:
             config.merge(next_config)
     return config