kcc topology generator written as python

[Michael Wood]

On 2 November 2011 07:23, Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
>> As per your suggestions I have rewritten the major portion of the
>> KCC in python.   The patchsets are available at:
>>
>> https://github.com/wimberosa/samba/tree/kcc-stable
[...]
>  - the method of walking over the keys() in functions like
>   load_connection() is unusual. It will work fine, but I think it may
>   be clearer to ask for that attribute directly. The pattern we usually
>   use is:
>
>  if 'options' in msg:
>    self.options = int(msg['options'][0])
>
>  if you want to make that neater, we could add a helper function a bit
>  like getattr() that takes a default value. For example:
>
>    self.options = ldb_msg_value(msg, 'options', 0)

It's built-in! :)  Well, sort of anyway:

self.options = int(msg.get('options', [0])[0])

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>