This includes:
* Better ways of checking empty lists
* Not shadowing builtin functions like filter
* Preventing invalid slash warnings by marking strings as regexps
* Removing unnecessary brackets
* Lowercase variable names
* Adding/updating parameters in docstrings
* Removing unused code (lines not chunks)
* Change in not a member tests
* Changing some methods to static
* Shorting range membership checks
* Missing parameters
* Make some exception handlers more specific
* Don't define a lambda to a variable
* A few more instance checks to help type checkers
Relented on the strict import of direct objects/classes for the typing
module only. Typing module components can be directly imported because
it makes the code really painful to read and write otherwise.
This is still in-line with the python style guide adopted from Google at
http://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html section 2.2.
Leave a comment to ensure we get back to checking out why the hbin size
check fails to only prevent bad accesses (and effectively gives false
positives).
Layers now accept metadata dictionaries (and chain/stack them on top of
those from lower layers). Metadata can only be set at construction
time, and the metadata dictionary is readonly. The hope is this will
make enumerating metadata keys across the codebase simpler.
The current metadata items that layers hold is:
architecture (Unknown | Intel32 | Intel64)
os (Unknown | Windows | Linux)
pae (bool)
page_map_offset (int)
This patchset may develop further to help enumerate all of these
(through a registration/reporting system).
It's longer to type, but people shouldn't be typing it directly.
They should be pulling the value from the config and using that, which
can default to 'nt' if necessary.
We determine address_masks using log/ln2, which cannot accept 0.
Therefore we don't support address spaces with a maximum_address of 0.
This can affect registry hives, so we've added a check in registry hives
to prevent creating layers with invalid maximum_addresses.
Mike Auty