Remove struct

The advanced features of struct were not being used anywhere and accessing members
using just a dot can be problematic (e.g. a key named "items" would break dict.items())

diff --git a/python/invirt/common.py b/python/invirt/common.py
index 1c54a1e..ffd2e4c 100644 (file)
--- a/python/invirt/common.py
+++ b/python/invirt/common.py
@@ -6,50 +6,6 @@ import subprocess
 class InvirtConfigError(AttributeError):
     pass
 
-class struct(dict):
-    'A simple namespace object.'
-    def __init__(self, d = {}, __prefix = None, __default=None, **kwargs):
-        super(struct, self).__init__(d)
-        self.__prefix = __prefix
-        self.__default = __default
-        self.update(kwargs)
-    def __getattr__(self, key):
-        try:
-            return self[key]
-        except KeyError:
-            if self.__default is None:
-                # XX ideally these would point a frame higher on the stack.
-                prefix = self.__prefix
-                if prefix is not None:
-                    raise InvirtConfigError('missing configuration variable '
-                                            '%s%s' % (prefix, key))
-                else:
-                    raise AttributeError("anonymous struct has no member '%s'"
-                                         % (key,))
-            else:
-                return struct({}, '', self.__default)
-
-def dicts2struct(x, prefix = None, default = None):
-    """
-    Given a tree of lists/dicts, perform a deep traversal to transform all the
-    dicts to structs.
-    """
-    if prefix is not None:
-        def newprefix(k): return prefix + str(k) + '.'
-    else:
-        def newprefix(k): return prefix
-    if type(x) == dict:
-        return struct(((k, dicts2struct(v, newprefix(k), default))
-                       for k,v in x.iteritems()),
-                      prefix,
-                      default)
-    elif type(x) == list:
-        return [dicts2struct(v, newprefix(i), default)
-                for i, v in enumerate(x)]
-    elif x is None:
-        return struct({}, prefix, default)
-    else:
-        return x
 
 @clib.contextmanager
 def lock_file(path, exclusive = True):
@@ -112,20 +68,4 @@ class CodeError(Exception):
 # Tests.
 #
 
-class common_tests(unittest.TestCase):
-    def test_dicts2structs(self):
-        dicts = {
-                'atom': 0,
-                'dict': { 'atom': 'atom', 'list': [1,2,3] },
-                'list': [ 'atom', {'key': 'value'} ]
-                }
-        structs = dicts2struct(dicts, '')
-        self.assertEqual(structs.atom,        dicts['atom'])
-        self.assertEqual(structs.dict.atom,   dicts['dict']['atom'])
-        self.assertEqual(structs.dict.list,   dicts['dict']['list'])
-        self.assertEqual(structs.list[0],     dicts['list'][0])
-        self.assertEqual(structs.list[1].key, dicts['list'][1]['key'])
-        self.assertEqual(set(structs), set(['atom', 'dict', 'list']))
 
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    unittest.main()