Provide examples for python podman API

Signed-off-by: Jhon Honce <jhonce@redhat.com>

Closes: #870
Approved by: rhatdan

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/python/examples/run_example.sh b/contrib/python/examples/run_example.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+export PYTHONPATH=..
+
+function examples {
+  for file in $@; do
+    python3 -c "import ast; f=open('"${file}"'); t=ast.parse(f.read()); print(ast.get_docstring(t) + '  -- "${file}"')"
+  done
+}
+
+while getopts "lh" arg; do
+  case $arg in
+    l ) examples $(ls eg_*.py); exit 0 ;;
+    h ) echo 1>&2 $0 [-l] [-h] filename ; exit 2 ;;
+  esac
+done
+shift $((OPTIND-1))
+
+# podman needs to play some games with resources
+if [[ $(id -u) != 0 ]]; then
+  echo 1>&2 $0 must be run as root.
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+if ! systemctl --quiet is-active io.projectatomic.podman.socket; then
+  echo 1>&2 'podman is not running. systemctl enable --now io.projectatomic.podman.socket'
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+function cleanup {
+  podman rm $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+# Setup storage with an image and container
+podman pull alpine:latest >/tmp/podman.output 2>&1
+CTNR=$(podman create alpine)
+trap "cleanup $CTNR" EXIT
+
+if [[ -f $1 ]]; then
+  python3 $1
+else
+  python3 $1.py
+fi