[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 15/17] trace: rename _read_events to read_events

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

The _read_events method is used by callers outside of
its module, so should be a public method, not private.

Reviewed-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/simpletrace.py        |  6 +++---
 scripts/tracetool/__init__.py | 14 ++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/simpletrace.py b/scripts/simpletrace.py
index 0245c23..d66bf15 100755
--- a/scripts/simpletrace.py
+++ b/scripts/simpletrace.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 import struct
 import re
 import inspect
-from tracetool import _read_events, Event
+from tracetool import read_events, Event
 from tracetool.backend.simple import is_string
 
 header_event_id = 0xffffffffffffffff
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class Analyzer(object):
 def process(events, log, analyzer, read_header=True):
     """Invoke an analyzer on each event in a log."""
     if isinstance(events, str):
-        events = _read_events(open(events, 'r'))
+        events = read_events(open(events, 'r'))
     if isinstance(log, str):
         log = open(log, 'rb')
 
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ def run(analyzer):
                          '<trace-file>\n' % sys.argv[0])
         sys.exit(1)
 
-    events = _read_events(open(sys.argv[1], 'r'))
+    events = read_events(open(sys.argv[1], 'r'))
     process(events, sys.argv[2], analyzer, read_header=read_header)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
diff --git a/scripts/tracetool/__init__.py b/scripts/tracetool/__init__.py
index 2d0290d..136f716 100644
--- a/scripts/tracetool/__init__.py
+++ b/scripts/tracetool/__init__.py
@@ -282,7 +282,17 @@ class Event(object):
                      self)
 
 
-def _read_events(fobj):
+def read_events(fobj):
+    """Generate the output for the given (format, backends) pair.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    fobj : file
+        Event description file.
+
+    Returns a list of Event objects
+    """
+
     events = []
     for line in fobj:
         if not line.strip():
@@ -391,6 +401,6 @@ def generate(fevents, format, backends,
     tracetool.backend.dtrace.BINARY = binary
     tracetool.backend.dtrace.PROBEPREFIX = probe_prefix
 
-    events = _read_events(fevents)
+    events = read_events(fevents)
 
     tracetool.format.generate(events, format, backend)
-- 
2.7.4