strings-oc

Strings by Ouroboros Coding

Generic functions for dealing with and generating strings

Requires

strings-oc requires python 3.10 or higher

Installation

pip install strings-oc

Functions

bytes_human

Returns a human readable string using the number passed as a representation of bytes

>>> from strings import bytes_human
>>>	bytes_human(1024)
'1.0KiB'
>>> bytes_human(1024*1024)
'1.0MiB'
>>> bytes_human(1024*1024*1024+1000000000)
'1.9GiB'

cut

Shortens a string so that it ends on a full word instead of halfway between words.

>>> from strings import cut
>>> cut('12345 7890', 8)
'12345...'
>>> cut('12345 7890', 8, '…')
'12345…'
>>> cut('Hello, my name is Frank', 16, '…')
'Hello, my name…'

digits

Returns only the digits, i.e. the numeric characters, in the given string as a new string. Be careful, as this does not return numbers, but number characters, and will strip out valid float/decimal characters

>>> from strings import digits
>>> digits('1234abcd')
'1234'
>>> digits('a1b2c3d4')
'1234'
>>> digits('3.1415')
'31415'
>>> digits('1e+7')
'17'

from_file

Returns the entire file as a string

>>> from strings import from_file
>>> from_file('version.dat')
'1.0.1\n'

Assuming version.dat contained the following

1.0.1

If the file doesn't exist, from_file returns None. This can be changed by passing a second argument to be the default value.

>>> from strings import from_file
>>> from_file('doesnotexist', '1.0.0')
'1.0.0'

join

join creates a single string from a list of keys that may or may not exist in the passed dict.

>>> from strings import join
>>> d = { 'title': 'Mr.', 'first': 'Homer', 'last': 'Simpson' }
>>> join(d, ['title', 'first', 'last', 'post'])
'Mr. Homer Simpson'
>>> d = { 'title': 'Dr.', 'first': 'Julius', 'last': 'Hibbert', 'post': 'MD' }
'Dr. Julius Hibbert MD'

normalize

Returns, as well as possible, a normalized string converted from another string containing characters with special accents. It does this by finding special characters and converting them into their simpler, single character, versions. This is useful for things like automaticlaly generating urls, or for generating from unicode into ascii.

>>> from strings import normalize
>>> normalize('Ȟěƚľỡ, Ẉợɽḷᶁ!')
'Hello, World!'
>>> normalize('ffiDzǼij')
'ffiDAEij'

random

Returns a random string based on set parameters.

>>> from strings import random
>>> random()
'NQFsxVTi'
>>> random()
'KFCMjKQg'
>>> random()
'HJEvCjlA'

random can takes 3 optional parameters.

length

length represents the number of random characters you wish to return.

>>> random(length = 10)
'PvIwnubCyN'
>>> random(length = 4)
'bGXE'
>>> random(16)
'WMLdawtSCEFeNtsg'

characters

characters represents the set of chars that are allowed in the string. There is no limit on this list, and no necessity the values be different. This allows for modifying the randomness if there are characters you want to make "more random"

>>> random(8, 'AAAAa')
'AAAAAAAA'
>>> random(length = 8, characters = 'AAAaa')
'aAAAAAaA'
>>> random(characters = 'AAaaa', length = 8)
'aaaaAAaA'

characters can be set using special built in sets, and can be accessed by passing a list instead of a string

>>> random(16, ['aZ'])
'KwDNSoFPlVVTxwhj'
>>> random(characters = ['az*', '10'])
'a003jsut'
>>> random(characters = ['0x'], length = 32)
'9ce511ab223cef1d65c400ce2e836759'

name	characters
0x	0123456789abcdef
0	01234567
10	0123456789
az	abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
az*	abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz
AZ	ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
AZ*	ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ
aZ	abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
aZ*	abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ
!	!@#$%^&*-_+.?
!*	!@$%^*-_.

* sets denote removal of characters that might confuse, either systems or humans. &, #, etc for the former, and I, l, O, etc for the latter.

duplicates

By default random allows duplicate characters in a string, and doesn't see any issue with that. But it's possible you have an issue with it, and want a string made up completely of non-repeating characters. If so, set duplicates to False.

>>> random(16, ['az'], False)
'ifaunxgtzbywkmpr'
>>> random(26, ['az'], False)
'rmqghwsayntkpizfbeldvcxoju'
>>> random(27, ['az'], False)
ValueError: Can not generate random string with no duplicates from the given characters "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" in random

shorten_filename

shorten_filename allows for truncating filenames without losing or damaging the extension of the file. Useful for when you need to add a filename for an uploaded file to a database and you are limited by the length of the field.

>>> from strings import shorten_filename
>>> shorten_filename('hello_there_my_friend.txt', 16)
'hello_there_.txt'

As you can see, the name part of the file is shortened, but the .txt stays intact, avoiding potential problems with mime lookup.

strip_html

strip_html takes an HTML string and removes all the tags/elements while retaining the cdata. Useful for content that needs to be displayed without formatting.

>>> from strings import strip_html
>>> strip_html('<p>This is a test</p>')
'This is a test'
>>> strip_html('<p>Wanna see some <b>BOLD</b> text?</p>')
'Wanna see some BOLD text?'

strtr

strtr is a partial copy of the PHP functon of the same name. This version does not support the singular use of one $from, and one $to, but the same can be achieved by using a dict with a single key and value. The primary purpose of this function is to be the actual workhorse of the normalize function, but there's no reason other people can't make use of it.

>>> from strings import strtr
>>> strtr('Hello, World!', {'World': 'Chris'})
'Hello, Chris!'

to_bool

to_bool is useful for turning any string into a valid boolean. But will raise an exception if the value does not represent a bool as it sees it. First, it converts the string to lowercase, then it checks it against the following: Valid True values contain '1', 'on', 't', 'true', 'y', 'yes', 'x' Valid False values contain '0', 'f', 'false', 'n', 'no', 'off', ''

>>> from strings import to_bool
>>> to_bool('true')
True
>>> to_bool('F')
False
>>> to_bool('2')
ValueError: "2" is not a valid boolean representation in to_bool

to_file

Stores a string in a file, overwriting the existing contents, or creating the file if it didn't exist.

>>> from strings import to_file
>>> to_file('version.dat', '1.1.0')
True

The version.dat file will now contain the following

1.1.0

uuid_add_dashes

Used to add dashes "-" to a string representation of a UUID that has none.

>>> from strings import uuid_add_dashes
>>> uuid_add_dashes('b22eb45ac98311eca05a80fa5b0d7c77')
'b22eb45a-c983-11ec-a05a-80fa5b0d7c77'

uuid_strip_dashes

Used to strip dashes "-" from a string representation of a UUID that has them.

>>> from strings import uuid_strip_dashes
>>> uuid_strip_dashes('b22eb45a-c983-11ec-a05a-80fa5b0d7c77')
'b22eb45ac98311eca05a80fa5b0d7c77'

version_compare

Compares to version strings and returns if the first is less than (-1), equal to (0) or greater than (1) the second

>>> from strings import version_compare
>>> version_compare('1.0.1', '1.0')
1
>>> version_compare('1.0.1', '1.0.1')
0
>>> version_compare('1.0.1', '1.1')
-1