Changeset 3180 for pykota/trunk/pykota/constants.py

Timestamp:

05/29/07 23:03:12 (17 years ago)

Author:

jerome

Message:

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

Files:

• pykota/trunk/pykota/constants.py (modified) (1 diff)

pykota/trunk/pykota/constants.py

@@ -24 +24 @@
 """This module contains the definitions of constants used by PyKota."""
 
-ITERATIONDELAY = 4      # time to sleep between two loops
-STABILIZATIONDELAY = 5  # number of consecutive times the idle status must be seen before we consider it to be stable
+STATUSSTABILIZATIONDELAY = 4.0 # time to sleep between two loops
+STATUSSTABILIZATIONLOOPS = 5  # number of consecutive times the 'idle' status must be seen before we consider it to be stable
 NOPRINTINGMAXDELAY = 60 # The printer must begin to print within 60 seconds by default.
+
+def get(application, varname) :
+    """Retrieves the value of a particular printer variable from configuration file, else a constant defined here."""
+    pname = application.PrinterName
+    try :
+        value = getattr(application.config, "get%(varname)s" % locals())(pname)
+        if value is None :
+            raise TypeError     # Use hardcoded value
+    except (TypeError, AttributeError) : # NB : AttributeError in testing mode because I'm lazy !
+        value = globals().get(varname.upper())
+        application.logdebug("No value defined for %(varname)s for printer %(pname)s, using %(value)s." % locals())
+    return value