Replace Itpl with str.format in parallel launcher.

Signed-off-by: MinRK <[e-mail]>

IPython/config/profile/default/ipcluster_config.py

@@ -1,241 +1,242 b''
 import os
 
 c = get_config()
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Select which launchers to use
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # This allows you to control what method is used to start the controller
 # and engines.  The following methods are currently supported:
 # - Start as a regular process on localhost.
 # - Start using mpiexec.
 # - Start using the Windows HPC Server 2008 scheduler
 # - Start using PBS/SGE
 # - Start using SSH
 
 
 # The selected launchers can be configured below.
 
 # Options are:
 # - LocalControllerLauncher
 # - MPIExecControllerLauncher
 # - PBSControllerLauncher
 # - SGEControllerLauncher
 # - WindowsHPCControllerLauncher
 # c.IPClusterStartApp.controller_launcher = 'IPython.parallel.apps.launcher.LocalControllerLauncher'
 # c.IPClusterStartApp.controller_launcher = 'IPython.parallel.apps.launcher.PBSControllerLauncher'
 
 # Options are:
 # - LocalEngineSetLauncher
 # - MPIExecEngineSetLauncher
 # - PBSEngineSetLauncher
 # - SGEEngineSetLauncher
 # - WindowsHPCEngineSetLauncher
 # c.IPClusterEnginesApp.engine_launcher = 'IPython.parallel.apps.launcher.LocalEngineSetLauncher'
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Application configuration
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # The default number of engines that will be started. This is overridden by
 # the -n command line option: "ipcluster start -n 4"
 # c.IPClusterEnginesApp.n = 2
 
 # Log to a file in cluster_dir/log, otherwise just log to sys.stdout.
 # c.BaseParallelApp.log_to_file = False
 
 # Remove old logs from cluster_dir/log before starting.
 # c.BaseParallelApp.clean_logs = True
 
 # The working directory for the process. The application will use os.chdir
 # to change to this directory before starting.
 # c.BaseParallelApp.work_dir = os.getcwd()
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Local process launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # The command line arguments to call the controller with.
 # c.LocalControllerLauncher.controller_args = \
 #    ['--log-to-file','--log-level', '40']
 
 # The working directory for the controller
 # c.LocalEngineSetLauncher.work_dir = u''
 
 # Command line argument passed to the engines.
 # c.LocalEngineSetLauncher.engine_args = ['--log-to-file','--log-level', '40']
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # MPIExec launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # The mpiexec/mpirun command to use in both the controller and engines.
 # c.MPIExecLauncher.mpi_cmd = ['mpiexec']
 
 # Additional arguments to pass to the actual mpiexec command.
 # c.MPIExecLauncher.mpi_args = []
 
 # The mpiexec/mpirun command and args can be overridden if they should be different
 # for controller and engines.
 # c.MPIExecControllerLauncher.mpi_cmd = ['mpiexec']
 # c.MPIExecControllerLauncher.mpi_args = []
 # c.MPIExecEngineSetLauncher.mpi_cmd = ['mpiexec']
 # c.MPIExecEngineSetLauncher.mpi_args = []
 
 # The command line argument to call the controller with.
 # c.MPIExecControllerLauncher.controller_args = \
 #     ['--log-to-file','--log-level', '40']
 
 # Command line argument passed to the engines.
 # c.MPIExecEngineSetLauncher.engine_args = ['--log-to-file','--log-level', '40']
 
 # The default number of engines to start if not given elsewhere.
 # c.MPIExecEngineSetLauncher.n = 1
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # SSH launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # ipclusterz can be used to launch controller and engines remotely via ssh.
 # Note that currently ipclusterz does not do any file distribution, so if
 # machines are not on a shared filesystem, config and json files must be
 # distributed.  For this reason, the reuse_files defaults to True on an
 # ssh-launched Controller.  This flag can be overridded by the program_args
 # attribute of c.SSHControllerLauncher.
 
 # set the ssh cmd for launching remote commands. The default is ['ssh']
 # c.SSHLauncher.ssh_cmd = ['ssh']
 
 # set the ssh cmd for launching remote commands. The default is ['ssh']
 # c.SSHLauncher.ssh_args = ['tt']
 
 # Set the user and hostname for the controller
 # c.SSHControllerLauncher.hostname = 'controller.example.com'
 # c.SSHControllerLauncher.user = os.environ.get('USER','username')
 
 # Set the arguments to be passed to ipcontrollerz
 # note that remotely launched ipcontrollerz will not get the contents of 
 # the local ipcontrollerz_config.py unless it resides on the *remote host*
 # in the location specified by the --cluster_dir argument.
 # c.SSHControllerLauncher.program_args = ['-r', '-ip', '0.0.0.0', '--cluster_dir', '/path/to/cd']
 
-# Set the default args passed to ipenginez for SSH launched engines
+# Set the default args passed to ipengine for SSH launched engines
 # c.SSHEngineSetLauncher.engine_args = ['--mpi', 'mpi4py']
 
 # SSH engines are launched as a dict of locations/n-engines.
 # if a value is a tuple instead of an int, it is assumed to be of the form
-# (n, [args]), setting the arguments to passed to ipenginez on `host`.
+# (n, [args]), setting the arguments to passed to ipengine on `host`.
 # otherwise, c.SSHEngineSetLauncher.engine_args will be used as the default.
 
 # In this case, there will be 3 engines at my.example.com, and
 # 2 at [e-mail] with a special json connector location.
 # c.SSHEngineSetLauncher.engines = {'my.example.com' : 3,
 #                                   '[e-mail]' : (2, ['-f', '/path/to/ipcontroller-engine.json']}
 #                                  }
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Unix batch (PBS) schedulers launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # SGE and PBS are very similar. All configurables in this section called 'PBS*'
 # also exist as 'SGE*'.
 
 # The command line program to use to submit a PBS job.
 # c.PBSLauncher.submit_command = ['qsub']
 
 # The command line program to use to delete a PBS job.
 # c.PBSLauncher.delete_command = ['qdel']
 
 # The PBS queue in which the job should run
 # c.PBSLauncher.queue = 'myqueue'
 
 # A regular expression that takes the output of qsub and find the job id.
 # c.PBSLauncher.job_id_regexp = r'\d+'
 
 # If for some reason the Controller and Engines have different options above, they
 # can be set as c.PBSControllerLauncher.<option> etc.
 
 # PBS and SGE have default templates, but you can specify your own, either as strings
 # or from files, as described here:
 
 # The batch submission script used to start the controller. This is where
 # environment variables would be setup, etc. This string is interpreted using
-# the Itpl module in IPython.external. Basically, you can use ${n} for the
-# number of engine and ${cluster_dir} for the cluster_dir.
+# Python's string formatting. Basically, you can use {queue} for the name
+# of the PBS queue, and {profile_dir} for the profile_dir.
 # c.PBSControllerLauncher.batch_template = """
 # #PBS -N ipcontroller
-# #PBS -q $queue
+# #PBS -q {queue}
 # 
-# ipcontrollerz --cluster-dir $cluster_dir
+# ipcontroller profile_dir={profile_dir}
 # """
 
 # You can also load this template from a file
 # c.PBSControllerLauncher.batch_template_file = u"/path/to/my/template.sh"
 
 # The name of the instantiated batch script that will actually be used to
 # submit the job. This will be written to the cluster directory.
 # c.PBSControllerLauncher.batch_file_name = u'pbs_controller'
 
 # The batch submission script used to start the engines. This is where
 # environment variables would be setup, etc. This string is interpreted using
-# the Itpl module in IPython.external. Basically, you can use ${n} for the
-# number of engine and ${cluster_dir} for the cluster_dir.
+# Python's string formatting. Basically, you can use {queue} for the name
+# of the PBS queue, and {profile_dir} for the profile_dir, and {n}
+# for the number of engines.
 # c.PBSEngineSetLauncher.batch_template = """
-# #PBS -N ipcontroller
-# #PBS -l nprocs=$n
+# #PBS -N ipengine
+# #PBS -l nprocs={n}
 # 
-# ipenginez --cluster-dir $cluster_dir$s
+# ipengine profile_dir={profile_dir}
 # """
 
 # You can also load this template from a file
 # c.PBSControllerLauncher.batch_template_file = u"/path/to/my/template.sh"
 
 # The name of the instantiated batch script that will actually be used to
 # submit the job. This will be written to the cluster directory.
 # c.PBSEngineSetLauncher.batch_file_name = u'pbs_engines'
 
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Windows HPC Server 2008 launcher configuration
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # c.IPControllerJob.job_name = 'IPController'
 # c.IPControllerJob.is_exclusive = False
 # c.IPControllerJob.username = r'USERDOMAIN\USERNAME'
 # c.IPControllerJob.priority = 'Highest'
 # c.IPControllerJob.requested_nodes = ''
 # c.IPControllerJob.project = 'MyProject'
 
 # c.IPControllerTask.task_name = 'IPController'
 # c.IPControllerTask.controller_cmd = [u'ipcontroller.exe']
-# c.IPControllerTask.controller_args = ['--log-to-file', '--log-level', '40']
+# c.IPControllerTask.controller_args = ['--log-to-file', 'log_level=40']
 # c.IPControllerTask.environment_variables = {}
 
 # c.WindowsHPCControllerLauncher.scheduler = 'HEADNODE'
 # c.WindowsHPCControllerLauncher.job_file_name = u'ipcontroller_job.xml'
 
 
 # c.IPEngineSetJob.job_name = 'IPEngineSet'
 # c.IPEngineSetJob.is_exclusive = False
 # c.IPEngineSetJob.username = r'USERDOMAIN\USERNAME'
 # c.IPEngineSetJob.priority = 'Highest'
 # c.IPEngineSetJob.requested_nodes = ''
 # c.IPEngineSetJob.project = 'MyProject'
 
 # c.IPEngineTask.task_name = 'IPEngine'
 # c.IPEngineTask.engine_cmd = [u'ipengine.exe']
-# c.IPEngineTask.engine_args = ['--log-to-file', '--log-level', '40']
+# c.IPEngineTask.engine_args = ['--log-to-file', 'log_level=40']
 # c.IPEngineTask.environment_variables = {}
 
 # c.WindowsHPCEngineSetLauncher.scheduler = 'HEADNODE'
 # c.WindowsHPCEngineSetLauncher.job_file_name = u'ipengineset_job.xml'
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

IPython/parallel/apps/launcher.py

@@ -1,1070 +1,1067 b''
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # encoding: utf-8
 """
 Facilities for launching IPython processes asynchronously.
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2008-2009  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 copy
 import logging
 import os
 import re
 import stat
 
 # signal imports, handling various platforms, versions
 
 from signal import SIGINT, SIGTERM
 try:
     from signal import SIGKILL
 except ImportError:
     # Windows
     SIGKILL=SIGTERM
 
 try:
     # Windows >= 2.7, 3.2
     from signal import CTRL_C_EVENT as SIGINT
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
 try:
     from subprocess import check_output
 except ImportError:
     # pre-2.7, define check_output with Popen
     def check_output(*args, **kwargs):
         kwargs.update(dict(stdout=PIPE))
         p = Popen(*args, **kwargs)
         out,err = p.communicate()
         return out
 
 from zmq.eventloop import ioloop
 
-from IPython.external import Itpl
 # from IPython.config.configurable import Configurable
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Any, Int, List, Unicode, Dict, Instance
 from IPython.utils.path import get_ipython_module_path
 from IPython.utils.process import find_cmd, pycmd2argv, FindCmdError
 
 from IPython.parallel.factory import LoggingFactory
 
 from .win32support import forward_read_events
 
 from .winhpcjob import IPControllerTask, IPEngineTask, IPControllerJob, IPEngineSetJob
 
 WINDOWS = os.name == 'nt'
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Paths to the kernel apps
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 ipcluster_cmd_argv = pycmd2argv(get_ipython_module_path(
     'IPython.parallel.apps.ipclusterapp'
 ))
 
 ipengine_cmd_argv = pycmd2argv(get_ipython_module_path(
     'IPython.parallel.apps.ipengineapp'
 ))
 
 ipcontroller_cmd_argv = pycmd2argv(get_ipython_module_path(
     'IPython.parallel.apps.ipcontrollerapp'
 ))
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Base launchers and errors
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 class LauncherError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
 class ProcessStateError(LauncherError):
     pass
 
 
 class UnknownStatus(LauncherError):
     pass
 
 
 class BaseLauncher(LoggingFactory):
     """An asbtraction for starting, stopping and signaling a process."""
 
     # In all of the launchers, the work_dir is where child processes will be
     # run. This will usually be the profile_dir, but may not be. any work_dir
     # passed into the __init__ method will override the config value.
     # This should not be used to set the work_dir for the actual engine
     # and controller. Instead, use their own config files or the
     # controller_args, engine_args attributes of the launchers to add
     # the work_dir option.
     work_dir = Unicode(u'.')
     loop = Instance('zmq.eventloop.ioloop.IOLoop')
     
     start_data = Any()
     stop_data = Any()
     
     def _loop_default(self):
         return ioloop.IOLoop.instance()
 
     def __init__(self, work_dir=u'.', config=None, **kwargs):
         super(BaseLauncher, self).__init__(work_dir=work_dir, config=config, **kwargs)
         self.state = 'before' # can be before, running, after
         self.stop_callbacks = []
         self.start_data = None
         self.stop_data = None
 
     @property
     def args(self):
         """A list of cmd and args that will be used to start the process.
 
         This is what is passed to :func:`spawnProcess` and the first element
         will be the process name.
         """
         return self.find_args()
 
     def find_args(self):
         """The ``.args`` property calls this to find the args list.
 
         Subcommand should implement this to construct the cmd and args.
         """
         raise NotImplementedError('find_args must be implemented in a subclass')
 
     @property
     def arg_str(self):
         """The string form of the program arguments."""
         return ' '.join(self.args)
 
     @property
     def running(self):
         """Am I running."""
         if self.state == 'running':
             return True
         else:
             return False
 
     def start(self):
         """Start the process.
 
         This must return a deferred that fires with information about the
         process starting (like a pid, job id, etc.).
         """
         raise NotImplementedError('start must be implemented in a subclass')
 
     def stop(self):
         """Stop the process and notify observers of stopping.
 
         This must return a deferred that fires with information about the
         processing stopping, like errors that occur while the process is
         attempting to be shut down. This deferred won't fire when the process
         actually stops. To observe the actual process stopping, see
         :func:`observe_stop`.
         """
         raise NotImplementedError('stop must be implemented in a subclass')
 
     def on_stop(self, f):
         """Get a deferred that will fire when the process stops.
 
         The deferred will fire with data that contains information about
         the exit status of the process.
         """
         if self.state=='after':
             return f(self.stop_data)
         else:
             self.stop_callbacks.append(f)
 
     def notify_start(self, data):
         """Call this to trigger startup actions.
 
         This logs the process startup and sets the state to 'running'.  It is
         a pass-through so it can be used as a callback.
         """
 
         self.log.info('Process %r started: %r' % (self.args[0], data))
         self.start_data = data
         self.state = 'running'
         return data
 
     def notify_stop(self, data):
         """Call this to trigger process stop actions.
 
         This logs the process stopping and sets the state to 'after'. Call
         this to trigger all the deferreds from :func:`observe_stop`."""
 
         self.log.info('Process %r stopped: %r' % (self.args[0], data))
         self.stop_data = data
         self.state = 'after'
         for i in range(len(self.stop_callbacks)):
             d = self.stop_callbacks.pop()
             d(data)
         return data
 
     def signal(self, sig):
         """Signal the process.
 
         Return a semi-meaningless deferred after signaling the process.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         sig : str or int
             'KILL', 'INT', etc., or any signal number
         """
         raise NotImplementedError('signal must be implemented in a subclass')
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Local process launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 class LocalProcessLauncher(BaseLauncher):
     """Start and stop an external process in an asynchronous manner.
 
     This will launch the external process with a working directory of
     ``self.work_dir``.
     """
 
     # This is used to to construct self.args, which is passed to 
     # spawnProcess.
     cmd_and_args = List([])
     poll_frequency = Int(100) # in ms
 
     def __init__(self, work_dir=u'.', config=None, **kwargs):
         super(LocalProcessLauncher, self).__init__(
             work_dir=work_dir, config=config, **kwargs
         )
         self.process = None
         self.start_deferred = None
         self.poller = None
 
     def find_args(self):
         return self.cmd_and_args
 
     def start(self):
         if self.state == 'before':
             self.process = Popen(self.args,
                 stdout=PIPE,stderr=PIPE,stdin=PIPE,
                 env=os.environ,
                 cwd=self.work_dir
             )
             if WINDOWS:
                 self.stdout = forward_read_events(self.process.stdout)
                 self.stderr = forward_read_events(self.process.stderr)
             else:
                 self.stdout = self.process.stdout.fileno()
                 self.stderr = self.process.stderr.fileno()
             self.loop.add_handler(self.stdout, self.handle_stdout, self.loop.READ)
             self.loop.add_handler(self.stderr, self.handle_stderr, self.loop.READ)
             self.poller = ioloop.PeriodicCallback(self.poll, self.poll_frequency, self.loop)
             self.poller.start()
             self.notify_start(self.process.pid)
         else:
             s = 'The process was already started and has state: %r' % self.state
             raise ProcessStateError(s)
 
     def stop(self):
         return self.interrupt_then_kill()
 
     def signal(self, sig):
         if self.state == 'running':
             if WINDOWS and sig != SIGINT:
                 # use Windows tree-kill for better child cleanup
                 check_output(['taskkill', '-pid', str(self.process.pid), '-t', '-f'])
             else:
                 self.process.send_signal(sig)
 
     def interrupt_then_kill(self, delay=2.0):
         """Send INT, wait a delay and then send KILL."""
         try:
             self.signal(SIGINT)
         except Exception:
             self.log.debug("interrupt failed")
             pass
         self.killer  = ioloop.DelayedCallback(lambda : self.signal(SIGKILL), delay*1000, self.loop)
         self.killer.start()
 
     # callbacks, etc:
     
     def handle_stdout(self, fd, events):
         if WINDOWS:
             line = self.stdout.recv()
         else:
             line = self.process.stdout.readline()
         # a stopped process will be readable but return empty strings
         if line:
             self.log.info(line[:-1])
         else:
             self.poll()
     
     def handle_stderr(self, fd, events):
         if WINDOWS:
             line = self.stderr.recv()
         else:
             line = self.process.stderr.readline()
         # a stopped process will be readable but return empty strings
         if line:
             self.log.error(line[:-1])
         else:
             self.poll()
     
     def poll(self):
         status = self.process.poll()
         if status is not None:
             self.poller.stop()
             self.loop.remove_handler(self.stdout)
             self.loop.remove_handler(self.stderr)
             self.notify_stop(dict(exit_code=status, pid=self.process.pid))
         return status
 
 class LocalControllerLauncher(LocalProcessLauncher):
     """Launch a controller as a regular external process."""
 
     controller_cmd = List(ipcontroller_cmd_argv, config=True,
         help="""Popen command to launch ipcontroller.""")
     # Command line arguments to ipcontroller.
     controller_args = List(['--log-to-file','log_level=%i'%logging.INFO], config=True,
         help="""command-line args to pass to ipcontroller""")
 
     def find_args(self):
         return self.controller_cmd + self.controller_args
 
     def start(self, profile_dir):
         """Start the controller by profile_dir."""
         self.controller_args.extend(['profile_dir=%s'%profile_dir])
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         self.log.info("Starting LocalControllerLauncher: %r" % self.args)
         return super(LocalControllerLauncher, self).start()
 
 
 class LocalEngineLauncher(LocalProcessLauncher):
     """Launch a single engine as a regular externall process."""
 
     engine_cmd = List(ipengine_cmd_argv, config=True,
         help="""command to launch the Engine.""")
     # Command line arguments for ipengine.
     engine_args = List(['--log-to-file','log_level=%i'%logging.INFO], config=True,
         help="command-line arguments to pass to ipengine"
     )
 
     def find_args(self):
         return self.engine_cmd + self.engine_args
 
     def start(self, profile_dir):
         """Start the engine by profile_dir."""
         self.engine_args.extend(['profile_dir=%s'%profile_dir])
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         return super(LocalEngineLauncher, self).start()
 
 
 class LocalEngineSetLauncher(BaseLauncher):
     """Launch a set of engines as regular external processes."""
 
     # Command line arguments for ipengine.
     engine_args = List(
         ['--log-to-file','log_level=%i'%logging.INFO], config=True,
         help="command-line arguments to pass to ipengine"
     )
     # launcher class
     launcher_class = LocalEngineLauncher
     
     launchers = Dict()
     stop_data = Dict()
     
     def __init__(self, work_dir=u'.', config=None, **kwargs):
         super(LocalEngineSetLauncher, self).__init__(
             work_dir=work_dir, config=config, **kwargs
         )
         self.stop_data = {}
 
     def start(self, n, profile_dir):
         """Start n engines by profile or profile_dir."""
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         dlist = []
         for i in range(n):
             el = self.launcher_class(work_dir=self.work_dir, config=self.config, logname=self.log.name)
             # Copy the engine args over to each engine launcher.
             el.engine_args = copy.deepcopy(self.engine_args)
             el.on_stop(self._notice_engine_stopped)
             d = el.start(profile_dir)
             if i==0:
                 self.log.info("Starting LocalEngineSetLauncher: %r" % el.args)
             self.launchers[i] = el
             dlist.append(d)
         self.notify_start(dlist)
         # The consumeErrors here could be dangerous
         # dfinal = gatherBoth(dlist, consumeErrors=True)
         # dfinal.addCallback(self.notify_start)
         return dlist
 
     def find_args(self):
         return ['engine set']
 
     def signal(self, sig):
         dlist = []
         for el in self.launchers.itervalues():
             d = el.signal(sig)
             dlist.append(d)
         # dfinal = gatherBoth(dlist, consumeErrors=True)
         return dlist
 
     def interrupt_then_kill(self, delay=1.0):
         dlist = []
         for el in self.launchers.itervalues():
             d = el.interrupt_then_kill(delay)
             dlist.append(d)
         # dfinal = gatherBoth(dlist, consumeErrors=True)
         return dlist
 
     def stop(self):
         return self.interrupt_then_kill()
     
     def _notice_engine_stopped(self, data):
         pid = data['pid']
         for idx,el in self.launchers.iteritems():
             if el.process.pid == pid:
                 break
         self.launchers.pop(idx)
         self.stop_data[idx] = data
         if not self.launchers:
             self.notify_stop(self.stop_data)
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # MPIExec launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 class MPIExecLauncher(LocalProcessLauncher):
     """Launch an external process using mpiexec."""
 
     mpi_cmd = List(['mpiexec'], config=True,
         help="The mpiexec command to use in starting the process."
     )
     mpi_args = List([], config=True,
         help="The command line arguments to pass to mpiexec."
     )
     program = List(['date'], config=True,
         help="The program to start via mpiexec.")
     program_args = List([], config=True,
         help="The command line argument to the program."
     )
     n = Int(1)
 
     def find_args(self):
         """Build self.args using all the fields."""
         return self.mpi_cmd + ['-n', str(self.n)] + self.mpi_args + \
                self.program + self.program_args
 
     def start(self, n):
         """Start n instances of the program using mpiexec."""
         self.n = n
         return super(MPIExecLauncher, self).start()
 
 
 class MPIExecControllerLauncher(MPIExecLauncher):
     """Launch a controller using mpiexec."""
 
     controller_cmd = List(ipcontroller_cmd_argv, config=True,
         help="Popen command to launch the Contropper"
     )
     controller_args = List(['--log-to-file','log_level=%i'%logging.INFO], config=True,
         help="Command line arguments to pass to ipcontroller."
     )
     n = Int(1)
 
     def start(self, profile_dir):
         """Start the controller by profile_dir."""
         self.controller_args.extend(['profile_dir=%s'%profile_dir])
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         self.log.info("Starting MPIExecControllerLauncher: %r" % self.args)
         return super(MPIExecControllerLauncher, self).start(1)
 
     def find_args(self):
         return self.mpi_cmd + ['-n', self.n] + self.mpi_args + \
                self.controller_cmd + self.controller_args
 
 
 class MPIExecEngineSetLauncher(MPIExecLauncher):
 
     program = List(ipengine_cmd_argv, config=True,
         help="Popen command for ipengine"
     )
     program_args = List(
         ['--log-to-file','log_level=%i'%logging.INFO], config=True,
         help="Command line arguments for ipengine."
     )
     n = Int(1)
 
     def start(self, n, profile_dir):
         """Start n engines by profile or profile_dir."""
         self.program_args.extend(['profile_dir=%s'%profile_dir])
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         self.n = n
         self.log.info('Starting MPIExecEngineSetLauncher: %r' % self.args)
         return super(MPIExecEngineSetLauncher, self).start(n)
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # SSH launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # TODO: Get SSH Launcher working again.
 
 class SSHLauncher(LocalProcessLauncher):
     """A minimal launcher for ssh.
 
     To be useful this will probably have to be extended to use the ``sshx``
     idea for environment variables.  There could be other things this needs
     as well.
     """
 
     ssh_cmd = List(['ssh'], config=True,
         help="command for starting ssh")
     ssh_args = List(['-tt'], config=True,
         help="args to pass to ssh")
     program = List(['date'], config=True,
         help="Program to launch via ssh")
     program_args = List([], config=True,
         help="args to pass to remote program")
     hostname = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="hostname on which to launch the program")
     user = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="username for ssh")
     location = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="user@hostname location for ssh in one setting")
 
     def _hostname_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if self.user:
             self.location = u'%s@%s' % (self.user, new)
         else:
             self.location = new
 
     def _user_changed(self, name, old, new):
         self.location = u'%s@%s' % (new, self.hostname)
 
     def find_args(self):
         return self.ssh_cmd + self.ssh_args + [self.location] + \
                self.program + self.program_args
 
     def start(self, profile_dir, hostname=None, user=None):
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         if hostname is not None:
             self.hostname = hostname
         if user is not None:
             self.user = user
         
         return super(SSHLauncher, self).start()
     
     def signal(self, sig):
         if self.state == 'running':
             # send escaped ssh connection-closer
             self.process.stdin.write('~.')
             self.process.stdin.flush()
         
 
 
 class SSHControllerLauncher(SSHLauncher):
 
     program = List(ipcontroller_cmd_argv, config=True,
         help="remote ipcontroller command.")
     program_args = List(['--reuse-files', '--log-to-file','log_level=%i'%logging.INFO], config=True,
         help="Command line arguments to ipcontroller.")
 
 
 class SSHEngineLauncher(SSHLauncher):
     program = List(ipengine_cmd_argv, config=True,
         help="remote ipengine command.")
     # Command line arguments for ipengine.
     program_args = List(
         ['--log-to-file','log_level=%i'%logging.INFO], config=True,
         help="Command line arguments to ipengine."
     )
     
 class SSHEngineSetLauncher(LocalEngineSetLauncher):
     launcher_class = SSHEngineLauncher
     engines = Dict(config=True,
         help="""dict of engines to launch.  This is a dict by hostname of ints,
         corresponding to the number of engines to start on that host.""")
     
     def start(self, n, profile_dir):
         """Start engines by profile or profile_dir.
         `n` is ignored, and the `engines` config property is used instead.
         """
         
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         dlist = []
         for host, n in self.engines.iteritems():
             if isinstance(n, (tuple, list)):
                 n, args = n
             else:
                 args = copy.deepcopy(self.engine_args)
             
             if '@' in host:
                 user,host = host.split('@',1)
             else:
                 user=None
             for i in range(n):
                 el = self.launcher_class(work_dir=self.work_dir, config=self.config, logname=self.log.name)
                 
                 # Copy the engine args over to each engine launcher.
                 i
                 el.program_args = args
                 el.on_stop(self._notice_engine_stopped)
                 d = el.start(profile_dir, user=user, hostname=host)
                 if i==0:
                     self.log.info("Starting SSHEngineSetLauncher: %r" % el.args)
                 self.launchers[host+str(i)] = el
                 dlist.append(d)
         self.notify_start(dlist)
         return dlist
     
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Windows HPC Server 2008 scheduler launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 # This is only used on Windows.
 def find_job_cmd():
     if WINDOWS:
         try:
             return find_cmd('job')
         except (FindCmdError, ImportError):
             # ImportError will be raised if win32api is not installed
             return 'job'
     else:
         return 'job'
 
 
 class WindowsHPCLauncher(BaseLauncher):
 
     job_id_regexp = Unicode(r'\d+', config=True,
         help="""A regular expression used to get the job id from the output of the
         submit_command. """
         )
     job_file_name = Unicode(u'ipython_job.xml', config=True,
         help="The filename of the instantiated job script.")
     # The full path to the instantiated job script. This gets made dynamically
     # by combining the work_dir with the job_file_name.
     job_file = Unicode(u'')
     scheduler = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="The hostname of the scheduler to submit the job to.")
     job_cmd = Unicode(find_job_cmd(), config=True,
         help="The command for submitting jobs.")
 
     def __init__(self, work_dir=u'.', config=None, **kwargs):
         super(WindowsHPCLauncher, self).__init__(
             work_dir=work_dir, config=config, **kwargs
         )
 
     @property
     def job_file(self):
         return os.path.join(self.work_dir, self.job_file_name)
 
     def write_job_file(self, n):
         raise NotImplementedError("Implement write_job_file in a subclass.")
 
     def find_args(self):
         return [u'job.exe']
         
     def parse_job_id(self, output):
         """Take the output of the submit command and return the job id."""
         m = re.search(self.job_id_regexp, output)
         if m is not None:
             job_id = m.group()
         else:
             raise LauncherError("Job id couldn't be determined: %s" % output)
         self.job_id = job_id
         self.log.info('Job started with job id: %r' % job_id)
         return job_id
 
     def start(self, n):
         """Start n copies of the process using the Win HPC job scheduler."""
         self.write_job_file(n)
         args = [
             'submit',
             '/jobfile:%s' % self.job_file,
             '/scheduler:%s' % self.scheduler
         ]
         self.log.info("Starting Win HPC Job: %s" % (self.job_cmd + ' ' + ' '.join(args),))
         # Twisted will raise DeprecationWarnings if we try to pass unicode to this
         output = check_output([self.job_cmd]+args,
             env=os.environ,
             cwd=self.work_dir,
             stderr=STDOUT
         )
         job_id = self.parse_job_id(output)
         self.notify_start(job_id)
         return job_id
 
     def stop(self):
         args = [
             'cancel',
             self.job_id,
             '/scheduler:%s' % self.scheduler
         ]
         self.log.info("Stopping Win HPC Job: %s" % (self.job_cmd + ' ' + ' '.join(args),))
         try:
             output = check_output([self.job_cmd]+args,
                 env=os.environ,
                 cwd=self.work_dir,
                 stderr=STDOUT
             )
         except:
             output = 'The job already appears to be stoppped: %r' % self.job_id
         self.notify_stop(dict(job_id=self.job_id, output=output))  # Pass the output of the kill cmd
         return output
 
 
 class WindowsHPCControllerLauncher(WindowsHPCLauncher):
 
     job_file_name = Unicode(u'ipcontroller_job.xml', config=True,
         help="WinHPC xml job file.")
     extra_args = List([], config=False,
         help="extra args to pass to ipcontroller")
 
     def write_job_file(self, n):
         job = IPControllerJob(config=self.config)
 
         t = IPControllerTask(config=self.config)
         # The tasks work directory is *not* the actual work directory of 
         # the controller. It is used as the base path for the stdout/stderr
         # files that the scheduler redirects to.
         t.work_directory = self.profile_dir
         # Add the profile_dir and from self.start().
         t.controller_args.extend(self.extra_args)
         job.add_task(t)
 
         self.log.info("Writing job description file: %s" % self.job_file)
         job.write(self.job_file)
 
     @property
     def job_file(self):
         return os.path.join(self.profile_dir, self.job_file_name)
 
     def start(self, profile_dir):
         """Start the controller by profile_dir."""
         self.extra_args = ['profile_dir=%s'%profile_dir]
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         return super(WindowsHPCControllerLauncher, self).start(1)
 
 
 class WindowsHPCEngineSetLauncher(WindowsHPCLauncher):
 
     job_file_name = Unicode(u'ipengineset_job.xml', config=True,
         help="jobfile for ipengines job")
     extra_args = List([], config=False,
         help="extra args to pas to ipengine")
 
     def write_job_file(self, n):
         job = IPEngineSetJob(config=self.config)
 
         for i in range(n):
             t = IPEngineTask(config=self.config)
             # The tasks work directory is *not* the actual work directory of 
             # the engine. It is used as the base path for the stdout/stderr
             # files that the scheduler redirects to.
             t.work_directory = self.profile_dir
             # Add the profile_dir and from self.start().
             t.engine_args.extend(self.extra_args)
             job.add_task(t)
 
         self.log.info("Writing job description file: %s" % self.job_file)
         job.write(self.job_file)
 
     @property
     def job_file(self):
         return os.path.join(self.profile_dir, self.job_file_name)
 
     def start(self, n, profile_dir):
         """Start the controller by profile_dir."""
         self.extra_args = ['profile_dir=%s'%profile_dir]
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         return super(WindowsHPCEngineSetLauncher, self).start(n)
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Batch (PBS) system launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class BatchSystemLauncher(BaseLauncher):
     """Launch an external process using a batch system.
 
     This class is designed to work with UNIX batch systems like PBS, LSF,
     GridEngine, etc.  The overall model is that there are different commands
     like qsub, qdel, etc. that handle the starting and stopping of the process.
 
     This class also has the notion of a batch script. The ``batch_template``
     attribute can be set to a string that is a template for the batch script.
-    This template is instantiated using Itpl. Thus the template can use
-    ${n} fot the number of instances. Subclasses can add additional variables
+    This template is instantiated using string formatting. Thus the template can
+    use {n} fot the number of instances. Subclasses can add additional variables
     to the template dict.
     """
 
     # Subclasses must fill these in.  See PBSEngineSet
     submit_command = List([''], config=True,
         help="The name of the command line program used to submit jobs.")
     delete_command = List([''], config=True,
         help="The name of the command line program used to delete jobs.")
     job_id_regexp = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="""A regular expression used to get the job id from the output of the
         submit_command.""")
     batch_template = Unicode('', config=True,
         help="The string that is the batch script template itself.")
     batch_template_file = Unicode(u'', config=True,
         help="The file that contains the batch template.")
     batch_file_name = Unicode(u'batch_script', config=True,
         help="The filename of the instantiated batch script.")
     queue = Unicode(u'', config=True,
         help="The PBS Queue.")
     
     # not configurable, override in subclasses
     # PBS Job Array regex
     job_array_regexp = Unicode('')
     job_array_template = Unicode('')
     # PBS Queue regex
     queue_regexp = Unicode('')
     queue_template = Unicode('')
     # The default batch template, override in subclasses
     default_template = Unicode('')
     # The full path to the instantiated batch script.
     batch_file = Unicode(u'')
     # the format dict used with batch_template:
     context = Dict()
 
     
     def find_args(self):
         return self.submit_command + [self.batch_file]
     
     def __init__(self, work_dir=u'.', config=None, **kwargs):
         super(BatchSystemLauncher, self).__init__(
             work_dir=work_dir, config=config, **kwargs
         )
         self.batch_file = os.path.join(self.work_dir, self.batch_file_name)
 
     def parse_job_id(self, output):
         """Take the output of the submit command and return the job id."""
         m = re.search(self.job_id_regexp, output)
         if m is not None:
             job_id = m.group()
         else:
             raise LauncherError("Job id couldn't be determined: %s" % output)
         self.job_id = job_id
         self.log.info('Job submitted with job id: %r' % job_id)
         return job_id
 
     def write_batch_script(self, n):
         """Instantiate and write the batch script to the work_dir."""
         self.context['n'] = n
         self.context['queue'] = self.queue
-        print self.context
         # first priority is batch_template if set
         if self.batch_template_file and not self.batch_template:
             # second priority is batch_template_file
             with open(self.batch_template_file) as f:
                 self.batch_template = f.read()
         if not self.batch_template:
             # third (last) priority is default_template
             self.batch_template = self.default_template
         
         regex = re.compile(self.job_array_regexp)
         # print regex.search(self.batch_template)
         if not regex.search(self.batch_template):
             self.log.info("adding job array settings to batch script")
             firstline, rest = self.batch_template.split('\n',1)
             self.batch_template = u'\n'.join([firstline, self.job_array_template, rest])
         
         regex = re.compile(self.queue_regexp)
         # print regex.search(self.batch_template)
         if self.queue and not regex.search(self.batch_template):
             self.log.info("adding PBS queue settings to batch script")
             firstline, rest = self.batch_template.split('\n',1)
             self.batch_template = u'\n'.join([firstline, self.queue_template, rest])
             
-        script_as_string = Itpl.itplns(self.batch_template, self.context)
+        script_as_string = self.batch_template.format(**self.context)
         self.log.info('Writing instantiated batch script: %s' % self.batch_file)
     
         with open(self.batch_file, 'w') as f:
             f.write(script_as_string)
         os.chmod(self.batch_file, stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IWUSR | stat.S_IXUSR)
 
     def start(self, n, profile_dir):
         """Start n copies of the process using a batch system."""
-        # Here we save profile and profile_dir in the context so they
-        # can be used in the batch script template as ${profile} and
-        # ${profile_dir}
+        # Here we save profile_dir in the context so they
+        # can be used in the batch script template as {profile_dir}
         self.context['profile_dir'] = profile_dir
         self.profile_dir = unicode(profile_dir)
         self.write_batch_script(n)
         output = check_output(self.args, env=os.environ)
         
         job_id = self.parse_job_id(output)
         self.notify_start(job_id)
         return job_id
 
     def stop(self):
         output = check_output(self.delete_command+[self.job_id], env=os.environ)
         self.notify_stop(dict(job_id=self.job_id, output=output)) # Pass the output of the kill cmd
         return output
 
 
 class PBSLauncher(BatchSystemLauncher):
     """A BatchSystemLauncher subclass for PBS."""
 
     submit_command = List(['qsub'], config=True,
         help="The PBS submit command ['qsub']")
     delete_command = List(['qdel'], config=True,
         help="The PBS delete command ['qsub']")
     job_id_regexp = Unicode(r'\d+', config=True,
         help="Regular expresion for identifying the job ID [r'\d+']")
     
     batch_file = Unicode(u'')
     job_array_regexp = Unicode('#PBS\W+-t\W+[\w\d\-\$]+')
-    job_array_template = Unicode('#PBS -t 1-$n')
+    job_array_template = Unicode('#PBS -t 1-{n}')
     queue_regexp = Unicode('#PBS\W+-q\W+\$?\w+')
-    queue_template = Unicode('#PBS -q $queue')
+    queue_template = Unicode('#PBS -q {queue}')
 
 
 class PBSControllerLauncher(PBSLauncher):
     """Launch a controller using PBS."""
 
     batch_file_name = Unicode(u'pbs_controller', config=True,
         help="batch file name for the controller job.")
     default_template= Unicode("""#!/bin/sh
 #PBS -V
 #PBS -N ipcontroller
-%s --log-to-file profile_dir $profile_dir
+%s --log-to-file profile_dir={profile_dir}
 """%(' '.join(ipcontroller_cmd_argv)))
 
     def start(self, profile_dir):
         """Start the controller by profile or profile_dir."""
         self.log.info("Starting PBSControllerLauncher: %r" % self.args)
         return super(PBSControllerLauncher, self).start(1, profile_dir)
 
 
 class PBSEngineSetLauncher(PBSLauncher):
     """Launch Engines using PBS"""
     batch_file_name = Unicode(u'pbs_engines', config=True,
         help="batch file name for the engine(s) job.")
     default_template= Unicode(u"""#!/bin/sh
 #PBS -V
 #PBS -N ipengine
-%s profile_dir $profile_dir
+%s profile_dir={profile_dir}
 """%(' '.join(ipengine_cmd_argv)))
 
     def start(self, n, profile_dir):
         """Start n engines by profile or profile_dir."""
         self.log.info('Starting %i engines with PBSEngineSetLauncher: %r' % (n, self.args))
         return super(PBSEngineSetLauncher, self).start(n, profile_dir)
 
 #SGE is very similar to PBS
 
 class SGELauncher(PBSLauncher):
     """Sun GridEngine is a PBS clone with slightly different syntax"""
-    job_array_regexp = Unicode('#\$\$\W+\-t')
-    job_array_template = Unicode('#$$ -t 1-$n')
-    queue_regexp = Unicode('#$$\W+-q\W+\$?\w+')
-    queue_template = Unicode('#$$ -q $queue')
+    job_array_regexp = Unicode('#\$\W+\-t')
+    job_array_template = Unicode('#$ -t 1-{n}')
+    queue_regexp = Unicode('#\$\W+-q\W+\$?\w+')
+    queue_template = Unicode('#$ -q $queue')
 
 class SGEControllerLauncher(SGELauncher):
     """Launch a controller using SGE."""
 
     batch_file_name = Unicode(u'sge_controller', config=True,
         help="batch file name for the ipontroller job.")
-    default_template= Unicode(u"""#$$ -V
-#$$ -S /bin/sh
-#$$ -N ipcontroller
-%s --log-to-file profile_dir=$profile_dir
+    default_template= Unicode(u"""#$ -V
+#$ -S /bin/sh
+#$ -N ipcontroller
+%s --log-to-file profile_dir={profile_dir}
 """%(' '.join(ipcontroller_cmd_argv)))
 
     def start(self, profile_dir):
         """Start the controller by profile or profile_dir."""
         self.log.info("Starting PBSControllerLauncher: %r" % self.args)
         return super(SGEControllerLauncher, self).start(1, profile_dir)
 
 class SGEEngineSetLauncher(SGELauncher):
     """Launch Engines with SGE"""
     batch_file_name = Unicode(u'sge_engines', config=True,
         help="batch file name for the engine(s) job.")
-    default_template = Unicode("""#$$ -V
-#$$ -S /bin/sh
-#$$ -N ipengine
-%s profile_dir=$profile_dir
+    default_template = Unicode("""#$ -V
+#$ -S /bin/sh
+#$ -N ipengine
+%s profile_dir={profile_dir}
 """%(' '.join(ipengine_cmd_argv)))
 
     def start(self, n, profile_dir):
         """Start n engines by profile or profile_dir."""
         self.log.info('Starting %i engines with SGEEngineSetLauncher: %r' % (n, self.args))
         return super(SGEEngineSetLauncher, self).start(n, profile_dir)
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # A launcher for ipcluster itself!
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
 class IPClusterLauncher(LocalProcessLauncher):
     """Launch the ipcluster program in an external process."""
 
     ipcluster_cmd = List(ipcluster_cmd_argv, config=True,
         help="Popen command for ipcluster")
     ipcluster_args = List(
         ['--clean-logs', '--log-to-file', 'log_level=%i'%logging.INFO], config=True,
         help="Command line arguments to pass to ipcluster.")
     ipcluster_subcommand = Unicode('start')
     ipcluster_n = Int(2)
 
     def find_args(self):
         return self.ipcluster_cmd + ['--'+self.ipcluster_subcommand] + \
             ['n=%i'%self.ipcluster_n] + self.ipcluster_args
 
     def start(self):
         self.log.info("Starting ipcluster: %r" % self.args)
         return super(IPClusterLauncher, self).start()
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Collections of launchers
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 local_launchers = [
     LocalControllerLauncher,
     LocalEngineLauncher,
     LocalEngineSetLauncher,
 ]
 mpi_launchers = [
     MPIExecLauncher,
     MPIExecControllerLauncher,
     MPIExecEngineSetLauncher,
 ]
 ssh_launchers = [
     SSHLauncher,
     SSHControllerLauncher,
     SSHEngineLauncher,
     SSHEngineSetLauncher,
 ]
 winhpc_launchers = [
     WindowsHPCLauncher,
     WindowsHPCControllerLauncher,
     WindowsHPCEngineSetLauncher,
 ]
 pbs_launchers = [
     PBSLauncher,
     PBSControllerLauncher,
     PBSEngineSetLauncher,
 ]
 sge_launchers = [
     SGELauncher,
     SGEControllerLauncher,
     SGEEngineSetLauncher,
 ]
 all_launchers = local_launchers + mpi_launchers + ssh_launchers + winhpc_launchers\
-                + pbs_launchers + sge_launchers
  No newline at end of file
+                + pbs_launchers + sge_launchers