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From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
To: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, esr@thyrsus.com, john@keeping.me.uk,
	Brandon Casey <bcasey@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-p4.py: support Python 2.5
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:45:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130126124510.GA31052@padd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359146641-27810-2-git-send-email-drafnel@gmail.com>

drafnel@gmail.com wrote on Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:44 -0800:
> Python 2.5 and older do not accept None as the first argument to
> translate() and complain with:
> 
>    TypeError: expected a character buffer object
> 
> Satisfy this older python by calling maketrans() to generate an empty
> translation table and supplying that to translate().
> 
> This allows git-p4 to be used with Python 2.5.

This was a lot easier than I imagined!

>  def wildcard_present(path):
> -    return path.translate(None, "*#@%") != path
> +    from string import maketrans
> +    return path.translate(maketrans("",""), "*#@%") != path

translate() was a bit too subtle already.  Could you try
something like this instead?

    m = re.search("[*#@%]", path)
    return m is not None

I think that'll work everywhere and not force people to look
up how translate and maketrans work.

		-- Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-26 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-25 20:43 [PATCH 0/2] git-p4 support for older python Brandon Casey
2013-01-25 20:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-p4.py: support Python 2.5 Brandon Casey
2013-01-26 12:45   ` Pete Wyckoff [this message]
2013-01-26 18:19     ` Brandon Casey
2013-01-25 20:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-p4.py: support Python 2.4 Brandon Casey
2013-01-26 12:48   ` Pete Wyckoff
2013-01-26 19:02     ` Brandon Casey
2013-01-25 21:10 ` [PATCH 0/2] git-p4 support for older python Junio C Hamano

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