# Cheetah.Utils.Misc module

Miscellaneous functions/objects used by Cheetah but also useful standalone.

Cheetah.Utils.Misc.checkKeywords(dic, legalKeywords, what='argument')

  Verify no illegal keyword arguments were passed to a function.

  indic, dictionary (**kw in the calling routine).

    legalKeywords, list of strings, the keywords that are allowed. what, string, suffix for error message (see function source).

  out: None. exc: TypeError if ‘dic’ contains a key not in ‘legalKeywords’. called by: Cheetah.Template.__init__()

Cheetah.Utils.Misc.die(reason)

Cheetah.Utils.Misc.mkdirsWithPyInitFiles(path)

  Same as os.makedirs (mkdir ‘path’ and all missing parent directories) but also puts a Python ‘__init__.py’ file in every directory it creates. Does nothing (without creating an ‘__init__.py’ file) if the directory already exists.

Cheetah.Utils.Misc.removeFromList(list_, *elements)

  Save as list_.remove(each element) but don’t raise an error if element is missing. Modifies ‘list_’ in place! Returns None.

Cheetah.Utils.Misc.useOrRaise(thing, errmsg='')

  Raise ‘thing’ if it’s a subclass of Exception. Otherwise return it.

  Called by: Cheetah.Servlet.cgiImport()