Refactor various site views into more generic locations, in preparation for
using access permissions to decide the fuctionality in the view, instead of
having lots of cut-and-paste copies of the same view functions.
site/home.py into more generic home.py
site/settings.py into more generic settings.py
site/docs/list.py into more generic docs/list.py
site/docs/edit.py into more generic docs/edit.py
Patch by: Todd Larsen
Review by: to-be-reviewed
#!/usr/bin/python2.5
#
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"""Logic related to handling dictionaries
"""
__authors__ = [
'"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',
]
def mergeDicts(target, updates):
"""Like the builtin 'update' method but does not overwrite existing values
Args:
target: The dictionary that is to be updated, may be None
updates: A dictionary containing new values for the original dict
Returns: the target dictionary
"""
if not target:
target = {}
for key, value in updates.iteritems():
if key not in target:
target[key] = value
return target