Package amplee :: Module utils

Module utils


A few simple helpers

Functions

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generate_uuid(seed=None)
Returns a uuid value.

generate_uri(scheme, authority, trail)
Builds an URI as an unicode object Keyword arguments: scheme -- URI scheme (e.g.

generate_uuid_uri(seed=None)
...

compute_etag(seed)
...

get_isodate(dt=None)
...

parse_isodate(value)
attempts to parse value as an ISO date and if succeeding returns a datetime object, None otherwise.

create_temporary_resource(content)
...

delete_temporary_resource(path)
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Function Details

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generate_uuid(seed=None)

source code


Returns a uuid value.

Keyword arguments:
seed -- if provided, builds a uuid from it
otherwise returns a random uuid

generate_uri(scheme, authority, trail)

source code


Builds an URI as an unicode object

Keyword arguments:
scheme -- URI scheme (e.g. http)
authority -- hostname
trail -- URI path

generate_uuid_uri(seed=None)

source code


Returns an URN from uuid

compute_etag(seed)

source code


Returns a hash value of seed

get_isodate(dt=None)

source code


returns a date respecting ISO 8601 format

parse_isodate(value)

source code


attempts to parse value as an ISO date and if succeeding returns
a datetime object, None otherwise.

Keyword arguments:
value -- a date in a string format

create_temporary_resource(content)

source code


Dump the content into a temp file and returns
the file handle, the absolute path of the temp file
as well as the content as a string

Keyword arguments:
content -- string object

delete_temporary_resource(path)

source code


Safely removes path

Keyword argument:
path -- a file-system path