from __future__ import with_statement import unittest from fcntl import flock, LOCK_EX, LOCK_SH, LOCK_UN import contextlib as clib class struct(object): 'A simple namespace object.' def __init__(self, d = {}, **kwargs): 'd is the dictionary to update my __dict__ with.' self.__dict__.update(d) self.__dict__.update(kwargs) def dicts2struct(x): """ Given a tree of lists/dicts, perform a deep traversal to transform all the dicts to structs. """ if type(x) == dict: return struct((k, dicts2struct(v)) for k,v in x.iteritems()) elif type(x) == list: return [dicts2struct(v) for v in x] else: return x @clib.contextmanager def lock_file(path, exclusive = True): with clib.closing(file(path, 'w')) as f: if exclusive: locktype = LOCK_EX else: locktype = LOCK_SH flock(f, locktype) try: yield finally: flock(f, LOCK_UN) # # 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']) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main()