ost.settings Namespace Reference

Data Structures
class	FileNotFound

Functions
def	GetPlatform
def	GetValue
def	Locate

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Function Documentation

def ost.settings.GetPlatform

(

)

Returns platform.system(). If the system call is interrupted, it is repeated.
This function is a workaround for the buggy system call handling in Python.

Definition at line 4 of file settings.py.

def ost.settings.GetValue	(		val_key,
			val_default = None,
			prefix = 'OST'
	)

Returns the value of the variable val_key if defined, otherwise returns the 
default value provided by the user (if provided). Search order: 

 * environment variable called $prefix_$val_key 
 * variable called val_key in .ostrc file

Definition at line 17 of file settings.py.

def ost.settings.Locate	(		file_name,
			explicit_file_name = None,
			search_paths = [],
			env_name = None,
			search_system_paths = True
	)

Helper function to locate files. To get the full name of an executable, let's 
say qmake, use

.. code-block:: python

  abs_qmake_path=Locate('qmake', env_name='QMAKE_EXECUTABLE')

First the function checks if an environment variable with the name 
QMAKE_EXECUTABLE is set. If so, the value of this variable is returned. Next, 
each directory listed in search_paths is searched. If the executable could 
still not be found and search_system_paths is set to True, the binary search 
paths are searched.

If the file could not be located, a :exc:`~ost.settings.FileNotFound` 
exception will be raised containing a detail description why Locate failed. The 
error message is formatted in such a way that it can directly be presented to 
the user.

Definition at line 53 of file settings.py.