selinonlib.helpers module¶

Selinonlib library helpers.

selinonlib.helpers.check_conf_keys(dict_, known_conf_opts)[source]¶

Check supplied configuration options against known configuration options.

Parameters:	dict – dict with configuration options known_conf_opts – known configuration options
Returns:	configuration options that are now known with their values

selinonlib.helpers.dict2json(dict_, pretty=True, safe=True)[source]¶

Convert dict to json (string).

Parameters:	dict (dict) – dictionary to be converted pretty (bool) – if True, nice formatting will be used safe (bool) – perform safe dump
Returns:	formatted dict in json
Return type:	str

selinonlib.helpers.dict2strkwargs(dict_)[source]¶

Convert a dictionary into arguments to a string representation that can be used as arguments to a function.

selinonlib.helpers.expr2str(expr)[source]¶

Convert a Python expression into a Python code.

selinonlib.helpers.get_function_arguments(func)[source]¶

Get arguments of function.

Parameters:	func – function to parse arguments
Returns:	list of arguments that predicate function expects

selinonlib.helpers.git_previous_version(file_path)[source]¶

Get hash of previous version of a file in Git CVS.

Parameters:	file_path – a path to file to get previous version from
Returns:	git hash of previous version and it’s depth from master
Return type:	tuple

selinonlib.helpers.git_previous_version_file(git_hash, file_path, tmp_dir=None)[source]¶

Get previous version of a file in Git CVS.

Parameters:	git_hash – git hash for the given file file_path – a path to file to get previous version from tmp_dir – a directory to store the content of previous file version
Returns:	a path to a temporary file with content from previous version

selinonlib.helpers.keylist2str(keylist)[source]¶

Convert keylist to a string representation.

Parameters:	keylist (list) – keylist to be converted
Returns:	string representation
Return type:	str

selinonlib.helpers.pushd(new_dir)[source]¶

Traverse a directory tree in a pushd/popd manner.

Parameters:	new_dir (str) – new directory to cd to