pysys.utils¶

Utility functions and classes.

These functions are used by the rest of the PySys framework. In some cases you may wish to use these directly, however always check if there is a wrapper method in pysys.basetest.BaseTest (or pysys.baserunner.BaseRunner) that would do the job first, before resorting to these lower-level functions.

`pysys.utils.allocport`	Dynamic TCP port allocation.
`pysys.utils.filediff`	Comparing (diffing) text file contents.
`pysys.utils.filegrep`	Regular expression grep matching in text files.
`pysys.utils.filereplace`	Replacing tokens in a text file.
`pysys.utils.fileunzip`	Unpacking one or more compressed files.
`pysys.utils.fileutils`	File and directory handling utility functions such as mkdir and deletedir, with enhanced error handling and support for long paths on Windows.
`pysys.utils.linecount`	Counting the number of lines in a text file matching a specified regular expression.
`pysys.utils.logutils`	Log formatting classes that can be used or customized from the project configuration, including support for colored output on the console.
`pysys.utils.misc`	Miscellanous utilities such as `pysys.utils.misc.compareVersions`, `pysys.utils.misc.setInstanceVariablesFromDict`, and `pysys.utils.misc.quoteString`.
`pysys.utils.perfreporter`	Old module for performance reporter - deprecated in favour of `pysys.perf`.
`pysys.utils.pycompat`	Compatibility utilities for older Python versions.
`pysys.utils.safeeval`	Contains the `safeEval` function.
`pysys.utils.threadutils`	Contains the `BackgroundThread` class.