[gentoo-dev] gentoolkit - python framework...

[Zach Forrest]

Good afternoon.

In an endevour to become better aquainted with Python, I've written some 
code* that may be of some use in writing tools for Gentoo. As an 
example, I've rewritten qpkg to use the "framework" -- I used optik to 
parse the commandline, so I had to simplify some of the option names, 
but most of the functionality should still be there. (I should note that 
the command for getting package info is a little slow at the moment. It 
uses the EPackage class, derived from Package, which is able to provide 
a great deal more info, but, of course, that info takes longer to parse 
out of the ebuild file. It would probably be beneficial to write a 
lighter weight class that does less work.) Most of the code is well 
documented which should be helpful to Python beginners (like me).

Feedback is *very* welcome. It's also my first "real" attempt at 
constructing regular expressions, so please be kind. I haven't packaged 
this up yet, so you just need to unpack the archive wherever you like.

Regards,
Zach

* Just the other day, I looked through the portage code (something I 
haven't done in quite some time) and some of the work I've done is 
fairly similar -- almost the same in some places. But, as this was a 
personal exercise, I enjoyed the journey. This is not to say that there 
is nothing useful to be found.