Part-conversion of hardware reference page to capability database...

..and a Python wrapper class that parses it.

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gpscap.py b/gpscap.py
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+"""
+
+gpscap - GPS capability dictionary class.
+
+"""
+import ConfigParser
+
+class GPSDictionary(ConfigParser.RawConfigParser):
+    def __init__(self, *files):
+        "Initialize the capability dictionary"
+        ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.__init__(self)
+        if not files:
+            files = ["gpscap.ini", "/usr/share/gpsd/gpscap.ini"]
+        self.read(files)
+        # Resolve uses= members
+        while True:
+            keepgoing = False
+            for section in self.sections():
+                if self.has_option(section, "uses"):
+                    parent = self.get(section, "uses")
+                    if self.has_option(parent, "uses"):
+                        continue
+                    # Found a parent section without a uses = part.
+                    for heritable in self.options(parent):
+                        if not self.has_option(section, heritable):
+                            self.set(section,
+                                     heritable,
+                                     self.get(parent, heritable))
+                            keepgoing = True
+                    self.remove_option(section, "uses")
+            if not keepgoing:
+                break
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    d = GPSDictionary()