initial import of the packaging package in the standard library
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+"""Command line parsing machinery.
+
+The FancyGetopt class is a Wrapper around the getopt module that
+provides the following additional features:
+  * short and long options are tied together
+  * options have help strings, so fancy_getopt could potentially
+    create a complete usage summary
+  * options set attributes of a passed-in object.
+
+It is used under the hood by the command classes.  Do not use directly.
+"""
+
+import getopt
+import re
+import sys
+import string
+import textwrap
+
+from packaging.errors import PackagingGetoptError, PackagingArgError
+
+# Much like command_re in packaging.core, this is close to but not quite
+# the same as a Python NAME -- except, in the spirit of most GNU
+# utilities, we use '-' in place of '_'.  (The spirit of LISP lives on!)
+# The similarities to NAME are again not a coincidence...
+longopt_pat = r'[a-zA-Z](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*)'
+longopt_re = re.compile(r'^%s$' % longopt_pat)
+
+# For recognizing "negative alias" options, eg. "quiet=!verbose"
+neg_alias_re = re.compile("^(%s)=!(%s)$" % (longopt_pat, longopt_pat))
+
+
+class FancyGetopt:
+    """Wrapper around the standard 'getopt()' module that provides some
+    handy extra functionality:
+      * short and long options are tied together
+      * options have help strings, and help text can be assembled
+        from them
+      * options set attributes of a passed-in object
+      * boolean options can have "negative aliases" -- eg. if
+        --quiet is the "negative alias" of --verbose, then "--quiet"
+        on the command line sets 'verbose' to false
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, option_table=None):
+
+        # The option table is (currently) a list of tuples.  The
+        # tuples may have 3 or four values:
+        #   (long_option, short_option, help_string [, repeatable])
+        # if an option takes an argument, its long_option should have '='
+        # appended; short_option should just be a single character, no ':'
+        # in any case.  If a long_option doesn't have a corresponding
+        # short_option, short_option should be None.  All option tuples
+        # must have long options.
+        self.option_table = option_table
+
+        # 'option_index' maps long option names to entries in the option
+        # table (ie. those 3-tuples).
+        self.option_index = {}
+        if self.option_table:
+            self._build_index()
+
+        # 'alias' records (duh) alias options; {'foo': 'bar'} means
+        # --foo is an alias for --bar
+        self.alias = {}
+
+        # 'negative_alias' keeps track of options that are the boolean
+        # opposite of some other option
+        self.negative_alias = {}
+
+        # These keep track of the information in the option table.  We
+        # don't actually populate these structures until we're ready to
+        # parse the command line, since the 'option_table' passed in here
+        # isn't necessarily the final word.
+        self.short_opts = []
+        self.long_opts = []
+        self.short2long = {}
+        self.attr_name = {}
+        self.takes_arg = {}
+
+        # And 'option_order' is filled up in 'getopt()'; it records the
+        # original order of options (and their values) on the command line,
+        # but expands short options, converts aliases, etc.
+        self.option_order = []
+
+    def _build_index(self):
+        self.option_index.clear()
+        for option in self.option_table:
+            self.option_index[option[0]] = option
+
+    def set_option_table(self, option_table):
+        self.option_table = option_table
+        self._build_index()
+
+    def add_option(self, long_option, short_option=None, help_string=None):
+        if long_option in self.option_index:
+            raise PackagingGetoptError(
+                  "option conflict: already an option '%s'" % long_option)
+        else:
+            option = (long_option, short_option, help_string)
+            self.option_table.append(option)
+            self.option_index[long_option] = option
+
+    def has_option(self, long_option):
+        """Return true if the option table for this parser has an
+        option with long name 'long_option'."""
+        return long_option in self.option_index
+
+    def _check_alias_dict(self, aliases, what):
+        assert isinstance(aliases, dict)
+        for alias, opt in aliases.items():
+            if alias not in self.option_index:
+                raise PackagingGetoptError(
+                      ("invalid %s '%s': "
+                       "option '%s' not defined") % (what, alias, alias))
+            if opt not in self.option_index:
+                raise PackagingGetoptError(
+                      ("invalid %s '%s': "
+                       "aliased option '%s' not defined") % (what, alias, opt))
+
+    def set_aliases(self, alias):
+        """Set the aliases for this option parser."""
+        self._check_alias_dict(alias, "alias")
+        self.alias = alias
+
+    def set_negative_aliases(self, negative_alias):
+        """Set the negative aliases for this option parser.
+        'negative_alias' should be a dictionary mapping option names to
+        option names, both the key and value must already be defined
+        in the option table."""
+        self._check_alias_dict(negative_alias, "negative alias")
+        self.negative_alias = negative_alias
+
+    def _grok_option_table(self):
+        """Populate the various data structures that keep tabs on the
+        option table.  Called by 'getopt()' before it can do anything
+        worthwhile.
+        """
+        self.long_opts = []
+        self.short_opts = []
+        self.short2long.clear()
+        self.repeat = {}
+
+        for option in self.option_table:
+            if len(option) == 3:
+                integer, short, help = option
+                repeat = 0
+            elif len(option) == 4:
+                integer, short, help, repeat = option
+            else:
+                # the option table is part of the code, so simply
+                # assert that it is correct
+                raise ValueError("invalid option tuple: %r" % option)
+
+            # Type- and value-check the option names
+            if not isinstance(integer, str) or len(integer) < 2:
+                raise PackagingGetoptError(
+                      ("invalid long option '%s': "
+                       "must be a string of length >= 2") % integer)
+
+            if (not ((short is None) or
+                     (isinstance(short, str) and len(short) == 1))):
+                raise PackagingGetoptError(
+                      ("invalid short option '%s': "
+                       "must be a single character or None") % short)
+
+            self.repeat[integer] = repeat
+            self.long_opts.append(integer)
+
+            if integer[-1] == '=':             # option takes an argument?
+                if short:
+                    short = short + ':'
+                integer = integer[0:-1]
+                self.takes_arg[integer] = 1
+            else:
+
+                # Is option is a "negative alias" for some other option (eg.
+                # "quiet" == "!verbose")?
+                alias_to = self.negative_alias.get(integer)
+                if alias_to is not None:
+                    if self.takes_arg[alias_to]:
+                        raise PackagingGetoptError(
+                              ("invalid negative alias '%s': "
+                               "aliased option '%s' takes a value") % \
+                               (integer, alias_to))
+
+                    self.long_opts[-1] = integer   # XXX redundant?!
+                    self.takes_arg[integer] = 0
+
+                else:
+                    self.takes_arg[integer] = 0
+
+            # If this is an alias option, make sure its "takes arg" flag is
+            # the same as the option it's aliased to.
+            alias_to = self.alias.get(integer)
+            if alias_to is not None:
+                if self.takes_arg[integer] != self.takes_arg[alias_to]:
+                    raise PackagingGetoptError(
+                          ("invalid alias '%s': inconsistent with "
+                           "aliased option '%s' (one of them takes a value, "
+                           "the other doesn't") % (integer, alias_to))
+
+            # Now enforce some bondage on the long option name, so we can
+            # later translate it to an attribute name on some object.  Have
+            # to do this a bit late to make sure we've removed any trailing
+            # '='.
+            if not longopt_re.match(integer):
+                raise PackagingGetoptError(
+                      ("invalid long option name '%s' " +
+                       "(must be letters, numbers, hyphens only") % integer)
+
+            self.attr_name[integer] = integer.replace('-', '_')
+            if short:
+                self.short_opts.append(short)
+                self.short2long[short[0]] = integer
+
+    def getopt(self, args=None, object=None):
+        """Parse command-line options in args. Store as attributes on object.
+
+        If 'args' is None or not supplied, uses 'sys.argv[1:]'.  If
+        'object' is None or not supplied, creates a new OptionDummy
+        object, stores option values there, and returns a tuple (args,
+        object).  If 'object' is supplied, it is modified in place and
+        'getopt()' just returns 'args'; in both cases, the returned
+        'args' is a modified copy of the passed-in 'args' list, which
+        is left untouched.
+        """
+        if args is None:
+            args = sys.argv[1:]
+        if object is None:
+            object = OptionDummy()
+            created_object = 1
+        else:
+            created_object = 0
+
+        self._grok_option_table()
+
+        short_opts = ' '.join(self.short_opts)
+
+        try:
+            opts, args = getopt.getopt(args, short_opts, self.long_opts)
+        except getopt.error as msg:
+            raise PackagingArgError(msg)
+
+        for opt, val in opts:
+            if len(opt) == 2 and opt[0] == '-':   # it's a short option
+                opt = self.short2long[opt[1]]
+            else:
+                assert len(opt) > 2 and opt[:2] == '--'
+                opt = opt[2:]
+
+            alias = self.alias.get(opt)
+            if alias:
+                opt = alias
+
+            if not self.takes_arg[opt]:     # boolean option?
+                assert val == '', "boolean option can't have value"
+                alias = self.negative_alias.get(opt)
+                if alias:
+                    opt = alias
+                    val = 0
+                else:
+                    val = 1
+
+            attr = self.attr_name[opt]
+            # The only repeating option at the moment is 'verbose'.
+            # It has a negative option -q quiet, which should set verbose = 0.
+            if val and self.repeat.get(attr) is not None:
+                val = getattr(object, attr, 0) + 1
+            setattr(object, attr, val)
+            self.option_order.append((opt, val))
+
+        # for opts
+        if created_object:
+            return args, object
+        else:
+            return args
+
+    def get_option_order(self):
+        """Returns the list of (option, value) tuples processed by the
+        previous run of 'getopt()'.  Raises RuntimeError if
+        'getopt()' hasn't been called yet.
+        """
+        if self.option_order is None:
+            raise RuntimeError("'getopt()' hasn't been called yet")
+        else:
+            return self.option_order
+
+        return self.option_order
+
+    def generate_help(self, header=None):
+        """Generate help text (a list of strings, one per suggested line of
+        output) from the option table for this FancyGetopt object.
+        """
+        # Blithely assume the option table is good: probably wouldn't call
+        # 'generate_help()' unless you've already called 'getopt()'.
+
+        # First pass: determine maximum length of long option names
+        max_opt = 0
+        for option in self.option_table:
+            integer = option[0]
+            short = option[1]
+            l = len(integer)
+            if integer[-1] == '=':
+                l = l - 1
+            if short is not None:
+                l = l + 5                   # " (-x)" where short == 'x'
+            if l > max_opt:
+                max_opt = l
+
+        opt_width = max_opt + 2 + 2 + 2     # room for indent + dashes + gutter
+
+        # Typical help block looks like this:
+        #   --foo       controls foonabulation
+        # Help block for longest option looks like this:
+        #   --flimflam  set the flim-flam level
+        # and with wrapped text:
+        #   --flimflam  set the flim-flam level (must be between
+        #               0 and 100, except on Tuesdays)
+        # Options with short names will have the short name shown (but
+        # it doesn't contribute to max_opt):
+        #   --foo (-f)  controls foonabulation
+        # If adding the short option would make the left column too wide,
+        # we push the explanation off to the next line
+        #   --flimflam (-l)
+        #               set the flim-flam level
+        # Important parameters:
+        #   - 2 spaces before option block start lines
+        #   - 2 dashes for each long option name
+        #   - min. 2 spaces between option and explanation (gutter)
+        #   - 5 characters (incl. space) for short option name
+
+        # Now generate lines of help text.  (If 80 columns were good enough
+        # for Jesus, then 78 columns are good enough for me!)
+        line_width = 78
+        text_width = line_width - opt_width
+        big_indent = ' ' * opt_width
+        if header:
+            lines = [header]
+        else:
+            lines = ['Option summary:']
+
+        for option in self.option_table:
+            integer, short, help = option[:3]
+            text = textwrap.wrap(help, text_width)
+
+            # Case 1: no short option at all (makes life easy)
+            if short is None:
+                if text:
+                    lines.append("  --%-*s  %s" % (max_opt, integer, text[0]))
+                else:
+                    lines.append("  --%-*s  " % (max_opt, integer))
+
+            # Case 2: we have a short option, so we have to include it
+            # just after the long option
+            else:
+                opt_names = "%s (-%s)" % (integer, short)
+                if text:
+                    lines.append("  --%-*s  %s" %
+                                 (max_opt, opt_names, text[0]))
+                else:
+                    lines.append("  --%-*s" % opt_names)
+
+            for l in text[1:]:
+                lines.append(big_indent + l)
+
+        return lines
+
+    def print_help(self, header=None, file=None):
+        if file is None:
+            file = sys.stdout
+        for line in self.generate_help(header):
+            file.write(line + "\n")
+
+
+def fancy_getopt(options, negative_opt, object, args):
+    parser = FancyGetopt(options)
+    parser.set_negative_aliases(negative_opt)
+    return parser.getopt(args, object)
+
+
+WS_TRANS = str.maketrans(string.whitespace, ' ' * len(string.whitespace))
+
+
+def wrap_text(text, width):
+    """Split *text* into lines of no more than *width* characters each.
+
+    *text* is a str and *width* an int.  Returns a list of str.
+    """
+
+    if text is None:
+        return []
+    if len(text) <= width:
+        return [text]
+
+    text = text.expandtabs()
+    text = text.translate(WS_TRANS)
+
+    chunks = re.split(r'( +|-+)', text)
+    chunks = [_f for _f in chunks if _f]      # ' - ' results in empty strings
+    lines = []
+
+    while chunks:
+
+        cur_line = []                   # list of chunks (to-be-joined)
+        cur_len = 0                     # length of current line
+
+        while chunks:
+            l = len(chunks[0])
+            if cur_len + l <= width:    # can squeeze (at least) this chunk in
+                cur_line.append(chunks[0])
+                del chunks[0]
+                cur_len = cur_len + l
+            else:                       # this line is full
+                # drop last chunk if all space
+                if cur_line and cur_line[-1][0] == ' ':
+                    del cur_line[-1]
+                break
+
+        if chunks:                      # any chunks left to process?
+
+            # if the current line is still empty, then we had a single
+            # chunk that's too big too fit on a line -- so we break
+            # down and break it up at the line width
+            if cur_len == 0:
+                cur_line.append(chunks[0][0:width])
+                chunks[0] = chunks[0][width:]
+
+            # all-whitespace chunks at the end of a line can be discarded
+            # (and we know from the re.split above that if a chunk has
+            # *any* whitespace, it is *all* whitespace)
+            if chunks[0][0] == ' ':
+                del chunks[0]
+
+        # and store this line in the list-of-all-lines -- as a single
+        # string, of course!
+        lines.append(''.join(cur_line))
+
+    # while chunks
+
+    return lines
+
+
+class OptionDummy:
+    """Dummy class just used as a place to hold command-line option
+    values as instance attributes."""
+
+    def __init__(self, options=[]):
+        """Create a new OptionDummy instance.  The attributes listed in
+        'options' will be initialized to None."""
+        for opt in options:
+            setattr(self, opt, None)