"""
asn1helper.py - some utilities to make life easier with asn1.py
(c) by Michael Stroeder <michael@stroeder.com>

This module is distributed under the terms of the
GPL (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE) Version 2
(see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

This module requires at least sub-module asn1.py of package Pisces
found on http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/software/pisces/

$Id: asn1helper.py,v 1.3 2003/05/26 07:21:46 michael Exp $
"""

import os, string
from pisces import asn1

def ParseCfg(dumpasn1cfg):
  """
  Read descriptions of OIDs either from
  Peter Gutmann's dumpasn1.cfg or a pickled copy.
  """
  if os.path.isfile(dumpasn1cfg+'.pickle'):
    try:
      # first try to use the faster cPickle module
      from cPickle import load
    except ImportError:
      from pickle import load
    # Try to read config file from a pickled copy
    f=open(dumpasn1cfg+'.pickle','rb')
    oids=load(f)
    f.close()
  else:
    f=open(dumpasn1cfg,'r')
    oids=asn1.parseCfg(f)
    f.close()
  return oids


def GetOIDDescription(oid,oids,includeoid=0):
  """
  returns description of oid if present in oids or stringed oid else
  """
  if oids!=None and oids.has_key(oid):
    descr = oids[oid]['Description']
    if not includeoid:
      descr, rest = string.split(descr,' ',1)
    return descr
  else:
    return str(oid)