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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 | #!/usr/bin/python
# Example demonstrating how to use the configuration/commandline system
# for configuration.
# Some valid command lines..
# config.py -h --help ; Turn on help
# config.py -no-h --no-help --help=no ; Turn off help
# config.py -qqq -q=3 ; verbosity to 3
# config.py -c /etc/apt/apt.conf ; include that config file]
# config.py -o help=true ; Turn on help by giving a
# ; config file string
# config.py -no-h -- -help ; Turn off help, specify the file '-help'
# -c and -o are standard APT-program options.
# This shows how to use the system for configuration and option control.
# The other varient is for ISC object config files. See configisc.py.
import apt_pkg
import sys
import posixpath
# Create a new empty Configuration object - there is also the system global
# configuration object apt_pkg.config which is used interally by apt-pkg
# routines to control unusual situations. I recommend using the sytem global
# whenever possible..
Cnf = apt_pkg.Configuration()
print "Command line is", sys.argv
# Load the default configuration file, init_config() does this better..
Cnf.set("config-file", "/etc/apt/apt.conf") # or Cnf["config-file"] = ".."
if posixpath.exists(Cnf.find_file("config-file")):
apt_pkg.read_config_file(Cnf, "/etc/apt/apt.conf")
# Merge the command line arguments into the configuration space
Arguments = [('h', "help", "help"),
('v', "version", "version"),
('q', "quiet", "quiet", "IntLevel"),
('c', "config-file", "", "ConfigFile"),
('o', "option", "", "ArbItem")]
print "FileNames", apt_pkg.parse_commandline(Cnf, Arguments, sys.argv)
print "Quiet level selected is", Cnf.find_i("quiet", 0)
# Do some stuff with it
if Cnf.find_b("version", 0) == 1:
print "Version selected - 1.1"
if Cnf.find_b("help", 0) == 1:
print "python-apt", apt_pkg.VERSION, \
"compiled on", apt_pkg.DATE, apt_pkg.TIME
print "Hi, I am the help text for this program"
sys.exit(0)
print "No help for you, try -h"
# Print the configuration space
print "The Configuration space looks like:"
for I in Cnf.keys():
print "%s \"%s\";" % (I, Cnf[I])
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