Task #7427 Create parset from dict

LCS/pyparameterset/src/__init__.py

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 from _pyparameterset import PyParameterValue
 from _pyparameterset import PyParameterSet
 
-
 class parametervalue(PyParameterValue):
     """
     The Python interface to ParameterValue
@@ -73,6 +72,7 @@ class parameterset(PyParameterSet):
         filename
           If a filename is given, the object is filled from that parset file.
           If a bool is given, it is treated as argument caseInsensitive.
+          If a dict is given, it is a set of parameter values.
         caseInsensitive
           True = parameter names are case insensitive
 
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ class parameterset(PyParameterSet):
         elif isinstance(filename, bool):
             # Here filename argument means caseInsensitive
             PyParameterSet.__init__ (self, filename, 0, 0);
+        elif isinstance(filename, dict):
+            # Here filename argument means caseInsensitive
+            PyParameterSet.__init__ (self, caseInsensitive, 0, 0);
+            self.adoptDict (filename)
         else:
             PyParameterSet.__init__ (self, filename, caseInsensitive);
 
@@ -143,6 +147,10 @@ class parameterset(PyParameterSet):
             if len(kv) == 2:
                 self.replace (kv[0], kv[1])
 
+    def adoptDict(self, parms):
+        for (k,v) in parms.iteritems():
+            self.replace (k, v)
+
     def get(self, key):
         """Get the parametervalue object of a parameter."""
         return parametervalue (self._get(key), _copyObj=True)