#!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys """ Author: Christopher Steel on behalf of Voice of Access Copyright: Copyrighted (c) by Massimo Di Pierro (2007-2011) web2py_clone becomes part of the web2py distribution available on Pypi via 'pip install web2py' web2py_clone is one of multiple commands that become available after running 'pip install web2py' in a virtual environment. It requires mercurial to be installed in the virtual environment. web2py_clone creates a local clone from the Web2py google code project in the directory "./web2py," a directory called web2py one directory up from the location of this script. ./bin/web2py_clone ./web2py """ def main(): iwd = cwd = os.getcwd() # set initial and current working directories script_filename = os.path.realpath(__file__) script_dirname = os.path.dirname(script_filename) try: print ("cwd now: %s" % cwd) except: print ("command failed %s" % cwd) try: os.chdir(script_dirname) cwd = os.getcwd() print ("cwd now: %s" % cwd) source = "https://code.google.com/p/web2py/" target = os.path.join('..','web2py') print ("attempting to clone %s" % source) print ("to %s" % target) if os.path.isdir(target): print ("found directory called web2py at %s" % target) print ("is web2py already installed?") print ("aborting clone attempt") else: os.system("hg clone %s %s" % (source,target)) os.chdir(iwd) # return to our initial working directory cwd = iwd # set current working directory except: print ("web2py-clone failed in second try statement %s" % cwd) if __name__ == '__main__': main()