Added remote function call abilities to AMP protocol, courtesy of patch by user Shell.

This allows for Server to call functions on Portal and vice-versa. Some rewrites and
cleanup done before applying /Griatch.

src/utils/utils.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import os, sys, imp, types, math
 import textwrap, datetime, random
 from inspect import ismodule
 from collections import defaultdict
-from twisted.internet import threads
+from twisted.internet import threads, defer, reactor
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 from django.conf import settings
 
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ def is_iter(iterable):
     except AttributeError:
         return False
 
+
 def make_iter(obj):
     "Makes sure that the object is always iterable."
     return not hasattr(obj, '__iter__') and [obj] or obj
@@ -87,9 +88,15 @@ def list_to_string(inlist, endsep="and", addquote=False):
     """
     This pretty-formats a list as string output, adding
     an optional alternative separator to the second to last entry.
-    If addquote is True, the outgoing strints will be surrounded by quotes.
+    If addquote is True, the outgoing strings will be surrounded by quotes.
 
-    [1,2,3] -> '1, 2 and 3'
+    Examples:
+     no endsep:
+        [1,2,3] -> '1, 2, 3'
+     with endsep=='and':
+        [1,2,3] -> '1, 2 and 3'
+     with addquote and endsep
+        [1,2,3] -> '"1", "2" and "3"'
     """
     if not inlist:
         return ""
@@ -490,7 +497,6 @@ def uses_database(name="sqlite3"):
     return engine == "django.db.backends.%s" % name
 
 
-
 _FROM_MODEL_MAP = None
 _TO_DBOBJ = lambda o: (hasattr(o, "dbobj") and o.dbobj) or o
 _TO_PACKED_DBOBJ = lambda natural_key, dbref: ('__packed_dbobj__', natural_key, dbref)