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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] xpak-helper: rewrite to rely more on argparse
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:52:45
Message-Id: 20151102165240.GT5154@vapier.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] xpak-helper: rewrite to rely more on argparse by Zac Medico
1 On 01 Nov 2015 09:36, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 10/31/2015 10:23 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > The current code implements a lot of ad-hoc argument parsing when it
4 > > could simply let the argparse module do it all for it. This makes the
5 > > code easier to understand and extend in the process.
6 > > ---
7 > > bin/xpak-helper.py | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------
8 > > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
9 > >
10 > > diff --git a/bin/xpak-helper.py b/bin/xpak-helper.py
11 > > index 8c965ec..1b2883d 100755
12 > > --- a/bin/xpak-helper.py
13 > > +++ b/bin/xpak-helper.py
14 > [snip]
15 > > -def main(argv):
16 > >
17 > > - if argv and isinstance(argv[0], bytes):
18 > > - for i, x in enumerate(argv):
19 > > - argv[i] = portage._unicode_decode(x, errors='strict')
20 >
21 > You've dropped the _unicode_decode call.
22
23 i did on purpose. i should have mentioned that.
24
25 > In order to handle python3 with arguments containing UTF-8 characters
26 > (in ${PKGDIR}) and a mis-matched sys.getfilesystemencoding() value, it's
27 > safest to decode the arguments like chmod-lite.py does.
28
29 it seems wrong that we have incomplete coverage here.
30 some tools do it and some do not.
31
32 > We should create
33 > a function for this code which is also duplicated in install.py:
34
35 you mean portage._decode_argv ?
36
37 what if we create a new module like "commandline" that provides an
38 ArgumentParser interface that takes care of this for us ?
39 -mike

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