rhodecode/lib/__init__.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
    rhodecode.lib.__init__
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Some simple helper functions
    
    :created_on: Jan 5, 2011
    :author: marcink
    :copyright: (C) 2009-2010 Marcin Kuzminski <[e-mail]>    
    :license: GPLv3, see COPYING for more details.
"""
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def str2bool(s):
    if s is None:
        return False
    if s in (True, False):
        return s
    s = str(s).strip().lower()
    return s in ('t', 'true', 'y', 'yes', 'on', '1')

def generate_api_key(username, salt=None):
    """
    Generates uniq API key for given username
    
    :param username: username as string
    :param salt: salt to hash generate KEY
    """
    from tempfile import _RandomNameSequence
    import hashlib

    if salt is None:
        salt = _RandomNameSequence().next()

    return hashlib.sha1(username + salt).hexdigest()

def safe_unicode(str):
    """
    safe unicode function. In case of UnicodeDecode error we try to return
    unicode with errors replace, if this fails we return unicode with 
    string_escape decoding 
    """

    try:
        u_str = unicode(str)
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        try:
            u_str = unicode(str, 'utf-8', 'replace')
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            #incase we have a decode error just represent as byte string
            u_str = unicode(str(str).encode('string_escape'))

    return u_str