From 3d10e3eae9bad78b6602e68364536362d178a239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergei Trofimov <sergei.trofimov@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:58:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] utils/types: numeric expeanded to handle percentages

numeric() conversion function is expanded to handle percentage values in
the form "10.123%". The result is the numeric part converted to a float
and divided by 100, e.g. 0.10123.
---
 devlib/utils/types.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/devlib/utils/types.py b/devlib/utils/types.py
index be30bfc..645328d 100644
--- a/devlib/utils/types.py
+++ b/devlib/utils/types.py
@@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ def numeric(value):
     """
     if isinstance(value, int):
         return value
+
+    if isinstance(value, basestring):
+        value = value.strip()
+        if value.endswith('%'):
+            try:
+                return float(value.rstrip('%')) / 100
+            except ValueError:
+                raise ValueError('Not numeric: {}'.format(value))
+
     try:
         fvalue = float(value)
     except ValueError: