# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ rhodecode.lib.__init__ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some simple helper functions :created_on: Jan 5, 2011 :author: marcink :copyright: (C) 2009-2010 Marcin Kuzminski :license: GPLv3, see COPYING for more details. """ # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . def str2bool(_str): """ returs True/False value from given string, it tries to translate the string into boolean :param _str: string value to translate into boolean :rtype: boolean :returns: boolean from given string """ if _str is None: return False if _str in (True, False): return _str _str = str(_str).strip().lower() return _str in ('t', 'true', 'y', 'yes', 'on', '1') def generate_api_key(username, salt=None): """ Generates unique API key for given username,if salt is not given it'll be generated from some random string :param username: username as string :param salt: salt to hash generate KEY :rtype: str :returns: sha1 hash from username+salt """ from tempfile import _RandomNameSequence import hashlib if salt is None: salt = _RandomNameSequence().next() return hashlib.sha1(username + salt).hexdigest() def safe_unicode(_str, from_encoding='utf8'): """ safe unicode function. In case of UnicodeDecode error we try to return unicode with errors replace :param _str: string to decode :rtype: unicode :returns: unicode object """ if isinstance(_str, unicode): return _str try: u_str = unicode(_str, from_encoding) except UnicodeDecodeError: u_str = unicode(_str, from_encoding, 'replace') return u_str