Make the maintenance page a hardcoded response
Show the maintenance message on the requested page, instead of
redirecting to a specific url which then displays a page with the
maintenance notice.
#!/usr/bin/python2.5
#
# Copyright 2009 the Melange authors.
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from __future__ import with_statement
"""User prompting and file access utilities."""
__authors__ = [
# alphabetical order by last name, please
'"David Anderson" <dave@natulte.net>',
]
import error
import log
class Error(error.Error):
pass
class FileAccessError(Error):
"""An error occured while accessing a file."""
pass
def getString(prompt):
"""Prompt for and return a string."""
prompt += ' '
log.stdout.write(prompt)
log.stdout.flush()
response = sys.stdin.readline()
log.terminal_echo(prompt + response.strip())
if not response:
raise error.AbortedByUser('Aborted by ctrl+D')
return response.strip()
def confirm(prompt, default=False):
"""Ask a yes/no question and return the answer.
Will reprompt the user until one of "yes", "no", "y" or "n" is
entered. The input is case insensitive.
Args:
prompt: The question to ask the user.
default: The answer to return if the user just hits enter.
Returns:
True if the user answered affirmatively, False otherwise.
"""
if default:
question = prompt + ' [Yn]'
else:
question = prompt + ' [yN]'
while True:
answer = getString(question)
if not answer:
return default
elif answer in ('y', 'yes'):
return True
elif answer in ('n', 'no'):
return False
else:
log.error('Please answer yes or no.')
def getNumber(prompt):
"""Prompt for and return a number.
Will reprompt the user until a number is entered.
"""
while True:
value_str = getString(prompt)
try:
return int(value_str)
except ValueError:
log.error('Please enter a number. You entered "%s".' % value_str)
def getChoice(intro, prompt, choices, done=None, suggest=None):
"""Prompt for and return a choice from a menu.
Will reprompt the user until a valid menu entry is chosen.
Args:
intro: Text to print verbatim before the choice menu.
prompt: The prompt to print right before accepting input.
choices: The list of string choices to display.
done: If not None, the list of indices of previously
selected/completed choices.
suggest: If not None, the index of the choice to highlight as
the suggested choice.
Returns:
The index in the choices list of the selection the user made.
"""
done = set(done or [])
while True:
print intro
print
for i, entry in enumerate(choices):
done_text = ' (done)' if i in done else ''
indent = '--> ' if i == suggest else ' '
print '%s%2d. %s%s' % (indent, i+1, entry, done_text)
print
choice = getNumber(prompt)
if 0 < choice <= len(choices):
return choice-1
log.error('%d is not a valid choice between %d and %d' %
(choice, 1, len(choices)))
print
def fileToLines(path):
"""Read a file and return it as a list of lines."""
try:
with file(path) as f:
return f.read().split('\n')
except (IOError, OSError), e:
raise FileAccessError(str(e))
def linesToFile(path, lines):
"""Write a list of lines to a file."""
try:
with file(path, 'w') as f:
f.write('\n'.join(lines))
except (IOError, OSError), e:
raise FileAccessError(str(e))