bpo-37704: Remove Tools/scripts/h2py.py (GH-15000)

Use cffi to access a C API in Python.

Lib/test/test_tools/test_sundry.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 This file contains extremely basic regression tests for the scripts found in
 the Tools directory of a Python checkout or tarball which don't have separate
-tests of their own, such as h2py.py.
+tests of their own.
 """
 
 import os

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-07-29-13-59-19.bpo-37704.xxGUz_.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove ``Tools/scripts/h2py.py``: use cffi to access a C API in Python.

Tools/scripts/README

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ ftpmirror.py              FTP mirror script
 get-remote-certificate.py Fetch the certificate that the server(s) are providing in PEM form
 google.py                 Open a webbrowser with Google
 gprof2html.py             Transform gprof(1) output into useful HTML
-h2py.py                   Translate #define's into Python assignments
 highlight.py              Python syntax highlighting with HTML output
 idle3                     Main program to start IDLE
 ifdef.py                  Remove #if(n)def groups from C sources

Tools/scripts/h2py.py

@@ -1,171 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env python3
-
-# Read #define's and translate to Python code.
-# Handle #include statements.
-# Handle #define macros with one argument.
-# Anything that isn't recognized or doesn't translate into valid
-# Python is ignored.
-
-# Without filename arguments, acts as a filter.
-# If one or more filenames are given, output is written to corresponding
-# filenames in the local directory, translated to all uppercase, with
-# the extension replaced by ".py".
-
-# By passing one or more options of the form "-i regular_expression"
-# you can specify additional strings to be ignored.  This is useful
-# e.g. to ignore casts to u_long: simply specify "-i '(u_long)'".
-
-# XXX To do:
-# - turn trailing C comments into Python comments
-# - turn C Boolean operators "&& || !" into Python "and or not"
-# - what to do about #if(def)?
-# - what to do about macros with multiple parameters?
-
-import sys, re, getopt, os
-
-p_define = re.compile(r'^[\t ]*#[\t ]*define[\t ]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)[\t ]+')
-
-p_macro = re.compile(
-  r'^[\t ]*#[\t ]*define[\t ]+'
-  r'([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\(([_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*)\)[\t ]+')
-
-p_include = re.compile(r'^[\t ]*#[\t ]*include[\t ]+<([^>\n]+)>')
-
-p_comment = re.compile(r'/\*([^*]+|\*+[^/])*(\*+/)?')
-p_cpp_comment = re.compile('//.*')
-
-ignores = [p_comment, p_cpp_comment]
-
-p_char = re.compile(r"'(\\.[^\\]*|[^\\])'")
-
-p_hex = re.compile(r"0x([0-9a-fA-F]+)L?")
-
-filedict = {}
-importable = {}
-
-try:
-    searchdirs=os.environ['include'].split(';')
-except KeyError:
-    try:
-        searchdirs=os.environ['INCLUDE'].split(';')
-    except KeyError:
-        searchdirs=['/usr/include']
-        try:
-            searchdirs.insert(0, os.path.join('/usr/include',
-                                              os.environ['MULTIARCH']))
-        except KeyError:
-            pass
-
-def main():
-    global filedict
-    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'i:')
-    for o, a in opts:
-        if o == '-i':
-            ignores.append(re.compile(a))
-    if not args:
-        args = ['-']
-    for filename in args:
-        if filename == '-':
-            sys.stdout.write('# Generated by h2py from stdin\n')
-            process(sys.stdin, sys.stdout)
-        else:
-            with open(filename) as fp:
-                outfile = os.path.basename(filename)
-                i = outfile.rfind('.')
-                if i > 0: outfile = outfile[:i]
-                modname = outfile.upper()
-                outfile = modname + '.py'
-                with open(outfile, 'w') as outfp:
-                    outfp.write('# Generated by h2py from %s\n' % filename)
-                    filedict = {}
-                    for dir in searchdirs:
-                        if filename[:len(dir)] == dir:
-                            filedict[filename[len(dir)+1:]] = None  # no '/' trailing
-                            importable[filename[len(dir)+1:]] = modname
-                            break
-                    process(fp, outfp)
-
-def pytify(body):
-    # replace ignored patterns by spaces
-    for p in ignores:
-        body = p.sub(' ', body)
-    # replace char literals by ord(...)
-    body = p_char.sub("ord('\\1')", body)
-    # Compute negative hexadecimal constants
-    start = 0
-    UMAX = 2*(sys.maxsize+1)
-    while 1:
-        m = p_hex.search(body, start)
-        if not m: break
-        s,e = m.span()
-        val = int(body[slice(*m.span(1))], 16)
-        if val > sys.maxsize:
-            val -= UMAX
-            body = body[:s] + "(" + str(val) + ")" + body[e:]
-        start = s + 1
-    return body
-
-def process(fp, outfp, env = {}):
-    lineno = 0
-    while 1:
-        line = fp.readline()
-        if not line: break
-        lineno = lineno + 1
-        match = p_define.match(line)
-        if match:
-            # gobble up continuation lines
-            while line[-2:] == '\\\n':
-                nextline = fp.readline()
-                if not nextline: break
-                lineno = lineno + 1
-                line = line + nextline
-            name = match.group(1)
-            body = line[match.end():]
-            body = pytify(body)
-            ok = 0
-            stmt = '%s = %s\n' % (name, body.strip())
-            try:
-                exec(stmt, env)
-            except:
-                sys.stderr.write('Skipping: %s' % stmt)
-            else:
-                outfp.write(stmt)
-        match = p_macro.match(line)
-        if match:
-            macro, arg = match.group(1, 2)
-            body = line[match.end():]
-            body = pytify(body)
-            stmt = 'def %s(%s): return %s\n' % (macro, arg, body)
-            try:
-                exec(stmt, env)
-            except:
-                sys.stderr.write('Skipping: %s' % stmt)
-            else:
-                outfp.write(stmt)
-        match = p_include.match(line)
-        if match:
-            regs = match.regs
-            a, b = regs[1]
-            filename = line[a:b]
-            if filename in importable:
-                outfp.write('from %s import *\n' % importable[filename])
-            elif filename not in filedict:
-                filedict[filename] = None
-                inclfp = None
-                for dir in searchdirs:
-                    try:
-                        inclfp = open(dir + '/' + filename)
-                        break
-                    except IOError:
-                        pass
-                if inclfp:
-                    with inclfp:
-                        outfp.write(
-                                '\n# Included from %s\n' % filename)
-                        process(inclfp, outfp, env)
-                else:
-                    sys.stderr.write('Warning - could not find file %s\n' %
-                                     filename)
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()