Byproducts of aborted attempt to refine 'parent' proxy semantics.

Mostly cleanup of mpy_importer.mpy_parse().

python/m5/__init__.py:
    Move panic() up to top in case we want to use it
    in mpy_importer (though I ended up not doing that
    after all).
python/m5/config.py:
    Add a couple of comments and a check for expressions
    like parent.any.foo (which is illegal).

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : dfc99ac9b1a2d91a736ca0b773b6d3c528a4f3cc

python/m5/__init__.py

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 import sys, os
 
-# the mpy import code is added to the global import meta_path as a
-# side effect of this import
-from mpy_importer import AddToPath, LoadMpyFile
-
 # define this here so we can use it right away if necessary
 def panic(string):
     print >>sys.stderr, 'panic:', string
     sys.exit(1)
 
+# the mpy import code is added to the global import meta_path as a
+# side effect of this import
+from mpy_importer import AddToPath, LoadMpyFile
+
 # find the m5 compile options: must be specified as a dict in
 # __main__.m5_build_env.
 import __main__

python/m5/config.py

@@ -151,8 +151,11 @@ class Proxy(object):
         self._multiplier = None
 
     def __getattr__(self, attr):
+        # python uses __bases__ internally for inheritance
         if attr == '__bases__':
             return super(Proxy, self).__getattr__(self, attr)
+        if (self._path == None):
+            panic("Can't add attributes to 'any' proxy")
         self._path.append((attr,None))
         return self
 
@@ -347,7 +350,7 @@ class MetaConfigNode(type):
                 elif isNullPointer(val):
                     cls._values[key] = val
 
-        # process param types from _init_dict, as these may be needed
+        # process param types from _init_dict first, as these may be needed
         # by param descriptions also in _init_dict
         for key,val in cls._init_dict.items():
             if isinstance(val, type) and issubclass(val, ParamType):