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Massive reorganization of the IPython documentation. It is now ready to be hacked on by users. Overall the transition to Sphinx is great. BUT, we have lots of broken links in the docs. Developers need to become familiar with how Sphinx handles links.

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# encoding: utf-8
"""Utilities for PB using modules."""
__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (C) 2008 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 cPickle as pickle
from twisted.python.failure import Failure
from twisted.python import failure
import threading, sys
from IPython.kernel import pbconfig
from IPython.kernel.error import PBMessageSizeError, UnpickleableException
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The actual utilities
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
def packageFailure(f):
"""Clean and pickle a failure preappending the string FAILURE:"""
f.cleanFailure()
# This is sometimes helpful in debugging
#f.raiseException()
try:
pString = pickle.dumps(f, 2)
except pickle.PicklingError:
# Certain types of exceptions are not pickleable, for instance ones
# from Boost.Python. We try to wrap them in something that is
f.type = UnpickleableException
f.value = UnpickleableException(str(f.type) + ": " + str(f.value))
pString = pickle.dumps(f, 2)
return 'FAILURE:' + pString
def unpackageFailure(r):
"""
See if a returned value is a pickled Failure object.
To distinguish between general pickled objects and pickled Failures, the
other side should prepend the string FAILURE: to any pickled Failure.
"""
if isinstance(r, str):
if r.startswith('FAILURE:'):
try:
result = pickle.loads(r[8:])
except pickle.PickleError:
return failure.Failure( \
FailureUnpickleable("Could not unpickle failure."))
else:
return result
return r
def checkMessageSize(m, info):
"""Check string m to see if it violates banana.SIZE_LIMIT.
This should be used on the client side of things for push, scatter
and push_serialized and on the other end for pull, gather and pull_serialized.
:Parameters:
`m` : string
Message whose size will be checked.
`info` : string
String describing what object the message refers to.
:Exceptions:
- `PBMessageSizeError`: Raised in the message is > banana.SIZE_LIMIT
:returns: The original message or a Failure wrapping a PBMessageSizeError
"""
if len(m) > pbconfig.banana.SIZE_LIMIT:
s = """Objects too big to transfer:
Names: %s
Actual Size (kB): %d
SIZE_LIMIT (kB): %d
* SIZE_LIMIT can be set in kernel.pbconfig""" \
% (info, len(m)/1024, pbconfig.banana.SIZE_LIMIT/1024)
return Failure(PBMessageSizeError(s))
else:
return m