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authorNathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>2008-10-10 10:15:00 -0700
committerNathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>2008-10-10 10:15:00 -0700
commit84364f36d0f763d3cef9847396fa4195184cb930 (patch)
tree050ec14f8a606b3e1e693109dd90c43531970a7f /src/python/m5/util
parent5586b1539baf6dd9029473a4ec1596a9fc8b7765 (diff)
downloadgem5-84364f36d0f763d3cef9847396fa4195184cb930.tar.xz
python: Add a utility for nested attribute dicts.
Change attrdict so that attributes that begin with an underscore don't go into the dict.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/python/m5/util')
-rw-r--r--src/python/m5/util/attrdict.py25
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/python/m5/util/attrdict.py b/src/python/m5/util/attrdict.py
index 44479c456..56f67217b 100644
--- a/src/python/m5/util/attrdict.py
+++ b/src/python/m5/util/attrdict.py
@@ -26,16 +26,17 @@
#
# Authors: Nathan Binkert
-__all__ = [ 'attrdict', 'optiondict' ]
+__all__ = [ 'attrdict', 'multiattrdict', 'optiondict' ]
class attrdict(dict):
+ """Wrap dict, so you can use attribute access to get/set elements"""
def __getattr__(self, attr):
if attr in self:
return self.__getitem__(attr)
return super(attrdict, self).__getattribute__(attr)
def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
- if attr in dir(self):
+ if attr in dir(self) or attr.startswith('_'):
return super(attrdict, self).__setattr__(attr, value)
return self.__setitem__(attr, value)
@@ -44,13 +45,23 @@ class attrdict(dict):
return self.__delitem__(attr)
return super(attrdict, self).__delattr__(attr, value)
+class multiattrdict(attrdict):
+ """Wrap attrdict so that nested attribute accesses automatically create
+ nested dictionaries."""
+ def __getattr__(self, attr):
+ try:
+ return super(multiattrdict, self).__getattr__(attr)
+ except AttributeError:
+ d = optiondict()
+ setattr(self, attr, d)
+ return d
+
class optiondict(attrdict):
+ """Modify attrdict so that a missing attribute just returns None"""
def __getattr__(self, attr):
try:
return super(optiondict, self).__getattr__(attr)
except AttributeError:
- #d = optionsdict()
- #setattr(self, attr, d)
return None
if __name__ == '__main__':
@@ -68,3 +79,9 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
del x.z
print dir(x)
print(x)
+
+ x = multiattrdict()
+ x.y.z = 9
+ print x
+ print x.y
+ print x.y.z