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Revision 3180, 1.8 kB (checked in by jerome, 17 years ago)

Now the various delays are configurable when using hardware accounting,
through the newly introduced 'statusstabilizationdelay' and 'statusstabilizationloops'
directives in pykota.conf

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1# PyKota
2# -*- coding: ISO-8859-15 -*-
3#
4# PyKota : Print Quotas for CUPS
5#
6# (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
7# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10# (at your option) any later version.
11#
12# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15# GNU General Public License for more details.
16#
17# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
20#
21# $Id$
22#
23
24"""This module contains the definitions of constants used by PyKota."""
25
26STATUSSTABILIZATIONDELAY = 4.0 # time to sleep between two loops
27STATUSSTABILIZATIONLOOPS = 5  # number of consecutive times the 'idle' status must be seen before we consider it to be stable
28NOPRINTINGMAXDELAY = 60 # The printer must begin to print within 60 seconds by default.
29
30def get(application, varname) :
31    """Retrieves the value of a particular printer variable from configuration file, else a constant defined here."""
32    pname = application.PrinterName
33    try :
34        value = getattr(application.config, "get%(varname)s" % locals())(pname)
35        if value is None :
36            raise TypeError     # Use hardcoded value
37    except (TypeError, AttributeError) : # NB : AttributeError in testing mode because I'm lazy !
38        value = globals().get(varname.upper())
39        application.logdebug("No value defined for %(varname)s for printer %(pname)s, using %(value)s." % locals())
40    return value   
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