+#
+# Canonicalize the p4 type and return a tuple of the
+# base type, plus any modifiers. See "p4 help filetypes"
+# for a list and explanation.
+#
+def split_p4_type(p4type):
+
+ p4_filetypes_historical = {
+ "ctempobj": "binary+Sw",
+ "ctext": "text+C",
+ "cxtext": "text+Cx",
+ "ktext": "text+k",
+ "kxtext": "text+kx",
+ "ltext": "text+F",
+ "tempobj": "binary+FSw",
+ "ubinary": "binary+F",
+ "uresource": "resource+F",
+ "uxbinary": "binary+Fx",
+ "xbinary": "binary+x",
+ "xltext": "text+Fx",
+ "xtempobj": "binary+Swx",
+ "xtext": "text+x",
+ "xunicode": "unicode+x",
+ "xutf16": "utf16+x",
+ }
+ if p4type in p4_filetypes_historical:
+ p4type = p4_filetypes_historical[p4type]
+ mods = ""
+ s = p4type.split("+")
+ base = s[0]
+ mods = ""
+ if len(s) > 1:
+ mods = s[1]
+ return (base, mods)