p4swamp 0.2

A pure Python wrapper for the Perforce command-line client

p4swamp

p4swamp is a wrapper for the Perforce command-line utility (p4). It does does not require external dependencies (pure Python). The module takes as input p4 commands (see P4 Documentation for complete list and usage) and outputs a list of Python dictionary objects. In addition specifying a workspace is supported.

Requirements

• Perforce command-line utility (p4) must be installed

• Python 2.6 and above (including Python 3)

Installation

pip install p4swamp

Usage

These are some examples of use cases. For additional details of the commands available see the P4 Documentation

Import Statement

from p4swamp import p4

Read Client Specification

>> p4('client', '-o', 'myclient')

[{'Access': '2017/03/24 10:29:53',
  'Client': 'myclient',
  'Description': 'Testing example\n',
  'LineEnd': 'local',
  'Options': 'noallwrite noclobber nocompress unlocked nomodtime normdir',
  'Root': 'C:\\myclient',
  'SubmitOptions': 'submitunchanged',
  'Update': '2017/05/03 19:01:53',
  'View0': '//depot/myproject/... //myclient/myproject/...',
  'View1': '+//depot/myfiles/data.txt //myclient/data.txt',
  'code': 'stat'}]

Note that the output is actually a list of dictionaries. Also note that the client view starts at View0 and continues like so View0, View1, View2, …

Write Client Specification

Creating the client and getting the data:

newclient1 = p4('client', '-o', 'newclient1')[0]  # Don't forget the [0] to get the dictionary!
newclient1['Root'] = 'C:\\myfolder\here'
newclient1['View0'] = '//depot/icecream/... //newclient1/icecream/...'

Then writing the modified specification:

>> p4('client', '-i', spec=newclient1)

[{
    'data': 'Client newclient1 saved.',
    'code': 'info',
    'level': '0'}]

Using The Binary Option

If for any reason the output you expect from P4 is not a string, you must use the binary option and set it to True. This is because by default the P4 output is converted to unicode in Python 3. This is of course unless you are using Python 2 (however it’s still recommended to use the binary flag because if the code is converted to Python 3, things will break!)

Here is an example of a use case:

from p4swamp import p4

p4_output = p4('print', '//depot/icecream/db.sqlite3', binary=True)
sql_bytes = b''.join([item['data'] for item in p4_output[1:]])

Other Options

By default the p4 function throws a P4Error if Perforce detects an error. If Perforce detects a warning, then the warning is printed. If you would like neither of that functionality (silent mode), then use the p4swamp function instead of the p4 function.

from p4swamp import p4swamp