first draft for vserver-based native myplc

[tests.git] / system / utils.py

diff --git a/system/utils.py b/system/utils.py
index 971ff52..2219848 100644 (file)
--- a/system/utils.py
+++ b/system/utils.py
@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
 # $Id$
 import time
+import os
+import pprint
 
 # how could this accept a list again ?
 def header(message):
     now=time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.localtime())
     print "*",now,'--',message
+
+def show_spec(message,spec,depth=2):
+    now=time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.localtime())
+    print ">",now,"--",message
+    pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=6,depth=depth).pprint(spec)
+
+def system(command):
+    now=time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.localtime())
+    print "+",now
+    return os.system("set -x; " + command)
+