#!/usr/bin/python # This program makes Debian and RPM repositories for MongoDB, by # downloading our tarballs of statically linked executables and # insinuating them into Linux packages. It must be run on a # Debianoid, since Debian provides tools to make RPMs, but RPM-based # systems don't provide debian packaging crud. # Notes: # # * Almost anything that you want to be able to influence about how a # package construction must be embedded in some file that the # packaging tool uses for input (e.g., debian/rules, debian/control, # debian/changelog; or the RPM specfile), and the precise details are # arbitrary and silly. So this program generates all the relevant # inputs to the packaging tools. # # * Once a .deb or .rpm package is made, there's a separate layer of # tools that makes a "repository" for use by the apt/yum layers of # package tools. The layouts of these repositories are arbitrary and # silly, too. # # * Before you run the program on a new host, these are the # prerequisites: # # apt-get install dpkg-dev rpm debhelper fakeroot ia32-libs createrepo git-core # echo "Now put the dist gnupg signing keys in ~root/.gnupg" import argparse import errno import getopt import httplib2 from glob import glob import os import re import shutil import stat import subprocess import sys import tempfile import time import urlparse # The MongoDB names for the architectures we support. DEFAULT_ARCHES=["x86_64"] # Made up names for the flavors of distribution we package for. DISTROS=["suse", "debian","redhat","ubuntu", "amazon"] class Spec(object): def __init__(self, ver, gitspec = None, rel = None): self.ver = ver self.gitspec = gitspec self.rel = rel def is_nightly(self): return bool(re.search("-$", self.version())) def is_rc(self): return bool(re.search("-rc\d+$", self.version())) def is_pre_release(self): return self.is_rc() or self.is_nightly() def version(self): return self.ver def metadata_gitspec(self): """Git revision to use for spec+control+init+manpage files. The default is the release tag for the version being packaged.""" if(self.gitspec): return self.gitspec else: return 'r' + self.version() def version_better_than(self, version_string): # FIXME: this is wrong, but I'm in a hurry. # e.g., "1.8.2" < "1.8.10", "1.8.2" < "1.8.2-rc1" return self.ver > version_string def suffix(self): return "-org" if int(self.ver.split(".")[1])%2==0 else "-org-unstable" def prelease(self): # "N" is either passed in on the command line, or "1" # # 1) Standard release - "N" # 2) Nightly (snapshot) - "0.N.YYYYMMDDlatest" # 3) RC's - "0.N.rcX" if self.rel: corenum = self.rel else: corenum = 1 # RC's if re.search("-rc\d+$", self.version()): return "0.%s.%s" % (corenum, re.sub('.*-','',self.version())) # Nightlies elif re.search("-$", self.version()): return "0.%s.%s" % (corenum, time.strftime("%Y%m%d")) else: return str(corenum) def pversion(self, distro): # Note: Debian packages have funny rules about dashes in # version numbers, and RPM simply forbids dashes. pversion # will be the package's version number (but we need to know # our upstream version too). if re.search("^(debian|ubuntu)", distro.name()): return re.sub("-", "~", self.ver) elif re.search("(suse|redhat|fedora|centos|amazon)", distro.name()): return re.sub("-.*", "", self.ver) else: raise Exception("BUG: unsupported platform?") def branch(self): """Return the major and minor portions of the specified version. For example, if the version is "2.5.5" the branch would be "2.5" """ return ".".join(self.ver.split(".")[0:2]) class Distro(object): def __init__(self, string): self.n=string def name(self): return self.n def pkgbase(self): return "mongodb" def archname(self, arch): if re.search("^(debian|ubuntu)", self.n): return "i386" if arch.endswith("86") else "amd64" elif re.search("^(suse|centos|redhat|fedora|amazon)", self.n): return "i686" if arch.endswith("86") else "x86_64" else: raise Exception("BUG: unsupported platform?") def repodir(self, arch, build_os, spec): """Return the directory where we'll place the package files for (distro, distro_version) in that distro's preferred repository layout (as distinct from where that distro's packaging building tools place the package files). Examples: repo/apt/ubuntu/dists/precise/mongodb-org/2.5/multiverse/binary-amd64 repo/apt/ubuntu/dists/precise/mongodb-org/2.5/multiverse/binary-i386 repo/apt/ubuntu/dists/trusty/mongodb-org/2.5/multiverse/binary-amd64 repo/apt/ubuntu/dists/trusty/mongodb-org/2.5/multiverse/binary-i386 repo/apt/debian/dists/wheezy/mongodb-org/2.5/main/binary-amd64 repo/apt/debian/dists/wheezy/mongodb-org/2.5/main/binary-i386 repo/yum/redhat/6/mongodb-org/2.5/x86_64 yum/redhat/6/mongodb-org/2.5/i386 repo/zypper/suse/11/mongodb-org/2.5/x86_64 zypper/suse/11/mongodb-org/2.5/i386 """ repo_directory = "" if spec.is_pre_release(): repo_directory = "testing" else: repo_directory = spec.branch() if re.search("^(debian|ubuntu)", self.n): return "repo/apt/%s/dists/%s/mongodb-org/%s/%s/binary-%s/" % (self.n, self.repo_os_version(build_os), repo_directory, self.repo_component(), self.archname(arch)) elif re.search("(redhat|fedora|centos|amazon)", self.n): return "repo/yum/%s/%s/mongodb-org/%s/%s/RPMS/" % (self.n, self.repo_os_version(build_os), repo_directory, self.archname(arch)) elif re.search("(suse)", self.n): return "repo/zypper/%s/%s/mongodb-org/%s/%s/RPMS/" % (self.n, self.repo_os_version(build_os), repo_directory, self.archname(arch)) else: raise Exception("BUG: unsupported platform?") def repo_component(self): """Return the name of the section/component/pool we are publishing into - e.g. "multiverse" for Ubuntu, "main" for debian.""" if self.n == 'ubuntu': return "multiverse" elif self.n == 'debian': return "main" else: raise Exception("unsupported distro: %s" % self.n) def repo_os_version(self, build_os): """Return an OS version suitable for package repo directory naming - e.g. 5, 6 or 7 for redhat/centos, "precise," "wheezy," etc. for Ubuntu/Debian, 11 for suse, "2013.03" for amazon""" if self.n == 'suse': return re.sub(r'^suse(\d+)$', r'\1', build_os) if self.n == 'redhat': return re.sub(r'^rhel(\d).*$', r'\1', build_os) if self.n == 'amazon': return "2013.03" elif self.n == 'ubuntu': if build_os == 'ubuntu1204': return "precise" elif build_os == 'ubuntu1404': return "trusty" else: raise Exception("unsupported build_os: %s" % build_os) elif self.n == 'debian': if build_os == 'debian71': return 'wheezy' else: raise Exception("unsupported build_os: %s" % build_os) else: raise Exception("unsupported distro: %s" % self.n) def make_pkg(self, build_os, arch, spec, srcdir): if re.search("^(debian|ubuntu)", self.n): return make_deb(self, build_os, arch, spec, srcdir) elif re.search("^(suse|centos|redhat|fedora|amazon)", self.n): return make_rpm(self, build_os, arch, spec, srcdir) else: raise Exception("BUG: unsupported platform?") def build_os(self): """Return the build os label in the binary package to download ("rhel55", "rhel62" and "rhel70" for redhat, "ubuntu1204" and "ubuntu1404" for Ubuntu, "debian71" for Debian), and "suse11" for SUSE)""" if re.search("(suse)", self.n): return [ "suse11" ] elif re.search("(redhat|fedora|centos)", self.n): return [ "rhel70", "rhel62", "rhel55" ] elif self.n == 'amazon': return [ "amazon" ] elif self.n == 'ubuntu': return [ "ubuntu1204", "ubuntu1404" ] elif self.n == 'debian': return [ "debian71" ] else: raise Exception("BUG: unsupported platform?") def release_dist(self, build_os): """Return the release distribution to use in the rpm - "el5" for rhel 5.x, "el6" for rhel 6.x, return anything else unchanged""" if self.n == 'amazon': return 'amzn1' else: return re.sub(r'^rh(el\d).*$', r'\1', build_os) def get_args(distros): DISTRO_CHOICES=[] for distro in distros: DISTRO_CHOICES.extend(distro.build_os()) parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Build MongoDB Packages') parser.add_argument("-s", "--server-version", help="Server version to build (e.g. 2.7.8-rc0)", required=True) parser.add_argument("-m", "--metadata-gitspec", help="Gitspec to use for package metadata files", required=False) parser.add_argument("-r", "--release-number", help="RPM release number base", type=int, required=False) parser.add_argument("-d", "--distros", help="Distros to build for", choices=DISTRO_CHOICES, required=False, default=[], action='append') parser.add_argument("-p", "--prefix", help="Directory to build into", required=False) parser.add_argument("-a", "--arches", help="Architecture to build", choices=DEFAULT_ARCHES, default=DEFAULT_ARCHES, required=False, action='append') parser.add_argument("-t", "--tarball", help="Local tarball to package instead of downloading (only valid with one distro/arch combination)", required=False, type=lambda x: is_valid_file(parser, x)) args = parser.parse_args() if len(args.distros) * len(args.arches) > 1 and args.tarball: parser.error("Can only specify local tarball with one distro/arch combination") return args def main(argv): distros=[Distro(distro) for distro in DISTROS] args = get_args(distros) spec = Spec(args.server_version, args.metadata_gitspec, args.release_number) oldcwd=os.getcwd() srcdir=oldcwd+"/../" # Where to do all of our work. Use a randomly-created directory if one # is not passed in. prefix = args.prefix if prefix is None: prefix = tempfile.mkdtemp() print "Working in directory %s" % prefix os.chdir(prefix) try: # Download the binaries. urlfmt="http://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-%s-%s-%s.tgz" # Build a package for each distro/spec/arch tuple, and # accumulate the repository-layout directories. for (distro, arch) in crossproduct(distros, args.arches): for build_os in distro.build_os(): if build_os in args.distros or not args.distros: if args.tarball: filename = tarfile(build_os, arch, spec) ensure_dir(filename) shutil.copyfile(args.tarball,filename) else: httpget(urlfmt % (arch, build_os, spec.version()), ensure_dir(tarfile(build_os, arch, spec))) repo = make_package(distro, build_os, arch, spec, srcdir) make_repo(repo, distro, build_os, spec) finally: os.chdir(oldcwd) def crossproduct(*seqs): """A generator for iterating all the tuples consisting of elements of seqs.""" l = len(seqs) if l == 0: pass elif l == 1: for i in seqs[0]: yield [i] else: for lst in crossproduct(*seqs[:-1]): for i in seqs[-1]: lst2=list(lst) lst2.append(i) yield lst2 def sysassert(argv): """Run argv and assert that it exited with status 0.""" print "In %s, running %s" % (os.getcwd(), " ".join(argv)) sys.stdout.flush() sys.stderr.flush() assert(subprocess.Popen(argv).wait()==0) def backtick(argv): """Run argv and return its output string.""" print "In %s, running %s" % (os.getcwd(), " ".join(argv)) sys.stdout.flush() sys.stderr.flush() return subprocess.Popen(argv, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] def tarfile(build_os, arch, spec): """Return the location where we store the downloaded tarball for this package""" return "dl/mongodb-linux-%s-%s-%s.tar.gz" % (spec.version(), build_os, arch) def setupdir(distro, build_os, arch, spec): # The setupdir will be a directory containing all inputs to the # distro's packaging tools (e.g., package metadata files, init # scripts, etc), along with the already-built binaries). In case # the following format string is unclear, an example setupdir # would be dst/x86_64/debian-sysvinit/wheezy/mongodb-org-unstable/ # or dst/x86_64/redhat/rhel55/mongodb-org-unstable/ return "dst/%s/%s/%s/%s%s-%s/" % (arch, distro.name(), build_os, distro.pkgbase(), spec.suffix(), spec.pversion(distro)) def httpget(url, filename): """Download the contents of url to filename, return filename.""" print "Fetching %s to %s." % (url, filename) conn = None u=urlparse.urlparse(url) assert(u.scheme=='http') try: h = httplib2.Http(cache = os.environ["HOME"] + "/.cache") resp, content = h.request(url, "GET") t=filename+'.TMP' if resp.status==200: with open(t, 'w') as f: f.write(content) else: raise Exception("HTTP error %d" % resp.status) os.rename(t, filename) finally: if conn: conn.close() return filename def unpack_binaries_into(build_os, arch, spec, where): """Unpack the tarfile for (build_os, arch, spec) into directory where.""" rootdir=os.getcwd() ensure_dir(where) # Note: POSIX tar doesn't require support for gtar's "-C" option, # and Python's tarfile module prior to Python 2.7 doesn't have the # features to make this detail easy. So we'll just do the dumb # thing and chdir into where and run tar there. os.chdir(where) try: sysassert(["tar", "xvzf", rootdir+"/"+tarfile(build_os, arch, spec)]) release_dir = glob('mongodb-linux-*')[0] for releasefile in "bin", "GNU-AGPL-3.0", "README", "THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES", "MPL-2": print "moving file: %s/%s" % (release_dir, releasefile) os.rename("%s/%s" % (release_dir, releasefile), releasefile) os.rmdir(release_dir) except Exception: exc=sys.exc_value os.chdir(rootdir) raise exc os.chdir(rootdir) def make_package(distro, build_os, arch, spec, srcdir): """Construct the package for (arch, distro, spec), getting packaging files from srcdir and any user-specified suffix from suffixes""" sdir=setupdir(distro, build_os, arch, spec) ensure_dir(sdir) # Note that the RPM packages get their man pages from the debian # directory, so the debian directory is needed in all cases (and # innocuous in the debianoids' sdirs). for pkgdir in ["debian", "rpm"]: print "Copying packaging files from %s to %s" % ("%s/%s" % (srcdir, pkgdir), sdir) # FIXME: sh-dash-cee is bad. See if tarfile can do this. sysassert(["sh", "-c", "(cd \"%s\" && git archive %s %s/ ) | (cd \"%s\" && tar xvf -)" % (srcdir, spec.metadata_gitspec(), pkgdir, sdir)]) # Splat the binaries under sdir. The "build" stages of the # packaging infrastructure will move the files to wherever they # need to go. unpack_binaries_into(build_os, arch, spec, sdir) # Remove the mongosniff binary due to libpcap dynamic # linkage. FIXME: this removal should go away # eventually. if os.path.exists(sdir + "bin/mongosniff"): os.unlink(sdir + "bin/mongosniff") return distro.make_pkg(build_os, arch, spec, srcdir) def make_repo(repodir, distro, build_os, spec): if re.search("(debian|ubuntu)", repodir): make_deb_repo(repodir, distro, build_os, spec) elif re.search("(suse|centos|redhat|fedora|amazon)", repodir): make_rpm_repo(repodir) else: raise Exception("BUG: unsupported platform?") def make_deb(distro, build_os, arch, spec, srcdir): # I can't remember the details anymore, but the initscript/upstart # job files' names must match the package name in some way; and # see also the --name flag to dh_installinit in the generated # debian/rules file. suffix=spec.suffix() sdir=setupdir(distro, build_os, arch, spec) if re.search("debian", distro.name()): os.link(sdir+"debian/init.d", sdir+"debian/%s%s-server.mongod.init" % (distro.pkgbase(), suffix)) os.unlink(sdir+"debian/mongod.upstart") elif re.search("ubuntu", distro.name()): os.link(sdir+"debian/mongod.upstart", sdir+"debian/%s%s-server.mongod.upstart" % (distro.pkgbase(), suffix)) os.unlink(sdir+"debian/init.d") else: raise Exception("unknown debianoid flavor: not debian or ubuntu?") # Rewrite the control and rules files write_debian_changelog(sdir+"debian/changelog", spec, srcdir) distro_arch=distro.archname(arch) sysassert(["cp", "-v", srcdir+"debian/%s%s.control" % (distro.pkgbase(), suffix), sdir+"debian/control"]) sysassert(["cp", "-v", srcdir+"debian/%s%s.rules" % (distro.pkgbase(), suffix), sdir+"debian/rules"]) # old non-server-package postinst will be hanging around for old versions # if os.path.exists(sdir+"debian/postinst"): os.unlink(sdir+"debian/postinst") # copy our postinst files # sysassert(["sh", "-c", "cp -v \"%sdebian/\"*.postinst \"%sdebian/\""%(srcdir, sdir)]) # Do the packaging. oldcwd=os.getcwd() try: os.chdir(sdir) sysassert(["dpkg-buildpackage", "-uc", "-us", "-a" + distro_arch]) finally: os.chdir(oldcwd) r=distro.repodir(arch, build_os, spec) ensure_dir(r) # FIXME: see if shutil.copyfile or something can do this without # much pain. sysassert(["sh", "-c", "cp -v \"%s/../\"*.deb \"%s\""%(sdir, r)]) return r def make_deb_repo(repo, distro, build_os, spec): # Note: the Debian repository Packages files must be generated # very carefully in order to be usable. oldpwd=os.getcwd() os.chdir(repo+"../../../../../../") try: dirs=set([os.path.dirname(deb)[2:] for deb in backtick(["find", ".", "-name", "*.deb"]).split()]) for d in dirs: s=backtick(["dpkg-scanpackages", d, "/dev/null"]) with open(d+"/Packages", "w") as f: f.write(s) b=backtick(["gzip", "-9c", d+"/Packages"]) with open(d+"/Packages.gz", "wb") as f: f.write(b) finally: os.chdir(oldpwd) # Notes: the Release{,.gpg} files must live in a special place, # and must be created after all the Packages.gz files have been # done. s="""Origin: mongodb Label: mongodb Suite: %s Codename: %s/mongodb-org Architectures: amd64 Components: %s Description: MongoDB packages """ % (distro.repo_os_version(build_os), distro.repo_os_version(build_os), distro.repo_component()) if os.path.exists(repo+"../../Release"): os.unlink(repo+"../../Release") if os.path.exists(repo+"../../Release.gpg"): os.unlink(repo+"../../Release.gpg") oldpwd=os.getcwd() os.chdir(repo+"../../") s2=backtick(["apt-ftparchive", "release", "."]) try: with open("Release", 'w') as f: f.write(s) f.write(s2) finally: os.chdir(oldpwd) def move_repos_into_place(src, dst): # Find all the stuff in src/*, move it to a freshly-created # directory beside dst, then play some games with symlinks so that # dst is a name the new stuff and dst+".old" names the previous # one. This feels like a lot of hooey for something so trivial. # First, make a crispy fresh new directory to put the stuff in. i=0 while True: date_suffix=time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") dname=dst+".%s.%d" % (date_suffix, i) try: os.mkdir(dname) break except OSError: exc=sys.exc_value if exc.errno == errno.EEXIST: pass else: raise exc i=i+1 # Put the stuff in our new directory. for r in os.listdir(src): sysassert(["cp", "-rv", src + "/" + r, dname]) # Make a symlink to the new directory; the symlink will be renamed # to dst shortly. i=0 while True: tmpnam=dst+".TMP.%d" % i try: os.symlink(dname, tmpnam) break except OSError: # as exc: # Python >2.5 exc=sys.exc_value if exc.errno == errno.EEXIST: pass else: raise exc i=i+1 # Make a symlink to the old directory; this symlink will be # renamed shortly, too. oldnam=None if os.path.exists(dst): i=0 while True: oldnam=dst+".old.%d" % i try: os.symlink(os.readlink(dst), oldnam) break except OSError: # as exc: # Python >2.5 exc=sys.exc_value if exc.errno == errno.EEXIST: pass else: raise exc os.rename(tmpnam, dst) if oldnam: os.rename(oldnam, dst+".old") def write_debian_changelog(path, spec, srcdir): oldcwd=os.getcwd() os.chdir(srcdir) preamble="" try: s=preamble+backtick(["sh", "-c", "git archive %s debian/changelog | tar xOf -" % spec.metadata_gitspec()]) finally: os.chdir(oldcwd) lines=s.split("\n") # If the first line starts with "mongodb", it's not a revision # preamble, and so frob the version number. lines[0]=re.sub("^mongodb \\(.*\\)", "mongodb (%s)" % (spec.pversion(Distro("debian"))), lines[0]) # Rewrite every changelog entry starting in mongodb lines=[re.sub("^mongodb ", "mongodb%s " % (spec.suffix()), l) for l in lines] lines=[re.sub("^ --", " --", l) for l in lines] s="\n".join(lines) with open(path, 'w') as f: f.write(s) def make_rpm(distro, build_os, arch, spec, srcdir): # Create the specfile. suffix=spec.suffix() sdir=setupdir(distro, build_os, arch, spec) # Use special suse init script if we're building for SUSE # if distro.name() == "suse": os.unlink(sdir+"rpm/init.d-mongod") os.link(sdir+"rpm/init.d-mongod.suse", sdir+"rpm/init.d-mongod") specfile=srcdir+"rpm/mongodb%s.spec" % suffix topdir=ensure_dir('%s/rpmbuild/%s/' % (os.getcwd(), build_os)) for subdir in ["BUILD", "RPMS", "SOURCES", "SPECS", "SRPMS"]: ensure_dir("%s/%s/" % (topdir, subdir)) distro_arch=distro.archname(arch) # RPM tools take these macro files that define variables in # RPMland. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell RPM tools to use # a given file *in addition* to the files that it would already # load, so we have to figure out what it would normally load, # augment that list, and tell RPM to use the augmented list. To # figure out what macrofiles ordinarily get loaded, older RPM # versions had a parameter called "macrofiles" that could be # extracted from "rpm --showrc". But newer RPM versions don't # have this. To tell RPM what macros to use, older versions of # RPM have a --macros option that doesn't work; on these versions, # you can put a "macrofiles" parameter into an rpmrc file. But # that "macrofiles" setting doesn't do anything for newer RPM # versions, where you have to use the --macros flag instead. And # all of this is to let us do our work with some guarantee that # we're not clobbering anything that doesn't belong to us. # # On RHEL systems, --rcfile will generally be used and # --macros will be used in Ubuntu. # macrofiles=[l for l in backtick(["rpm", "--showrc"]).split("\n") if l.startswith("macrofiles")] flags=[] macropath=os.getcwd()+"/macros" write_rpm_macros_file(macropath, topdir, distro.release_dist(build_os)) if len(macrofiles)>0: macrofiles=macrofiles[0]+":"+macropath rcfile=os.getcwd()+"/rpmrc" write_rpmrc_file(rcfile, macrofiles) flags=["--rcfile", rcfile] else: # This hard-coded hooey came from some box running RPM # 4.4.2.3. It may not work over time, but RPM isn't sanely # configurable. flags=["--macros", "/usr/lib/rpm/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/%s-linux/macros:/etc/rpm/macros.*:/etc/rpm/macros:/etc/rpm/%s-linux/macros:~/.rpmmacros:%s" % (distro_arch, distro_arch, macropath)] # Put the specfile and the tar'd up binaries and stuff in # place. # # The version of rpm and rpm tools in RHEL 5.5 can't interpolate the # %{dynamic_version} macro, so do it manually with open(specfile, "r") as spec_source: with open(topdir+"SPECS/" + os.path.basename(specfile), "w") as spec_dest: for line in spec_source: line = line.replace('%{dynamic_version}', spec.pversion(distro)) line = line.replace('%{dynamic_release}', spec.prelease()) spec_dest.write(line) oldcwd=os.getcwd() os.chdir(sdir+"/../") try: sysassert(["tar", "-cpzf", topdir+"SOURCES/mongodb%s-%s.tar.gz" % (suffix, spec.pversion(distro)), os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(sdir))]) finally: os.chdir(oldcwd) # Do the build. flags.extend(["-D", "dynamic_version " + spec.pversion(distro), "-D", "dynamic_release " + spec.prelease(), "-D", "_topdir " + topdir]) sysassert(["rpmbuild", "-ba", "--target", distro_arch] + flags + ["%s/SPECS/mongodb%s.spec" % (topdir, suffix)]) r=distro.repodir(arch, build_os, spec) ensure_dir(r) # FIXME: see if some combination of shutil.copy and glob # can do this without shelling out. sysassert(["sh", "-c", "cp -v \"%s/RPMS/%s/\"*.rpm \"%s\""%(topdir, distro_arch, r)]) return r def make_rpm_repo(repo): oldpwd=os.getcwd() os.chdir(repo+"../") try: sysassert(["createrepo", "."]) finally: os.chdir(oldpwd) def write_rpmrc_file(path, string): with open(path, 'w') as f: f.write(string) def write_rpm_macros_file(path, topdir, release_dist): with open(path, 'w') as f: f.write("%%_topdir %s\n" % topdir) f.write("%%dist .%s\n" % release_dist) f.write("%_use_internal_dependency_generator 0\n") def ensure_dir(filename): """Make sure that the directory that's the dirname part of filename exists, and return filename.""" dirpart = os.path.dirname(filename) try: os.makedirs(dirpart) except OSError: # as exc: # Python >2.5 exc=sys.exc_value if exc.errno == errno.EEXIST: pass else: raise exc return filename def is_valid_file(parser, filename): """Check if file exists, and return the filename""" if not os.path.exists(filename): parser.error("The file %s does not exist!" % filename) else: return filename if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv)