gnuviechadmin-historic/gnuviechadmin/backend/settings.py

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"""The Gnuviech Admin settings module.

This module handles all central configuration of Gnuviech Admin. It
parses configuration files and provides functions for reading
templates."""

import ConfigParser
import os
from string import Template

# global settings which must not be user configurable
required_version = 3

# load user configuration
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.readfp(open('gnuviechadmin/defaults.cfg'))
config.read(['gnuviechadmin/gva.cfg', os.path.expanduser('~/.gva.cfg')])

dbschema = None
if config.get('database', 'uri').startswith('postgres://'):
    dbschema = 'gva'


def get_template_dir(dirname):
    """Returns the template directory for the given directory."""
    templatepath = config.get('common', 'templatedir')
    return os.path.join(templatepath, dirname)


def get_template(dirname, filename):
    """Returns the template data from the given template file."""
    templatefile = file(os.path.join(get_template_dir(dirname),
                                     filename))
    templatedata = templatefile.read()
    return Template(templatedata.decode('utf_8'))


def get_template_string(templatestring):
    """Returns a template object for the given template string."""
    return Template(templatestring)