Module utils

Add a path to the python module search path.

Parameters:

• path (str) - The file path to add.
• insert (bool default: False) - Either insert the path at the head of sys.path, or append to the end.

Work around the various ways that objects get cast to strings in the qube job object.

Add a package dict to the job if one is not found; this can occur when an empty dict is used as a mock job during unittesting.

Parameters:

• job (dict or qb.Job) - The job to run

Returns: bool

Return a boolean value of the value the job package's 'dev' key; this can be either a string, int, or NoneType

Work around the various ways that objects get cast to strings in the qube job object.

Add a package dict to the job if one is not found; this can occur when an empty dict is used as a mock job during unittesting.

Parameters:

• job_attr (str) - The job attribute to check

Returns: bool

Return a boolean value of the value; this can be either a string, int, or NoneType

Work around the various ways that objects get cast to strings in the qube job object.

Parameters:

• val (str or int or bool) - the val to test for T/F

Returns: bool

Return a boolean value of the value

Get the path to the module that called this instance

Returns: str

The file path to the backend's class module

Import an abritrary module, and return a class object (not an instance) from that module.

Parameters:

• data (dict) - A dictionary describing the class object, must contain the following keys: libPath, modulePath, className

Print a nicely-formatted message with a timestamp, easily readable in a job's stdout/stderr logs

>>> bannerPrint( 'Finished work' )
================================================================================
 13:05:31        Finished work                                        render023
================================================================================

Parameters:

• msg (string) - The message to be printed
• timeFormat (string) - a format string suitable for time.strftime()
• fhList (list) - A list of file objects to print to. Optionally supports being passed a single file object; eg. 'fhList=sys.stderr'.

scan a job.conf for a multi-line block the is bound by [...], with the closing bracket at the beginning of a new line.

valid OS names acting as keys in the job.conf are those returned by sys.platform

example:

HFS_PATHS = [ darwin:"/Library/NotFoundHere/Houdini.framework/Versions/0.0.0/Resources" darwin: "/Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/0.0.0/Resources" linux2:"/opt/hfs0.0.0" win32: "C:/Program Files/Side Effect Software/Houdini 0.0.0" ]

return a dictionary, keyed of sys.platform names, values are a list of paths