Common operations documentation

Various useful functions.

poezio.common.find_argument(pos, text, quoted=True)

Split an input into a list of arguments, return the number of the argument selected by pos.

If the position searched is outside the string, or in a space between words, then it will return the position of an hypothetical new argument.

See the doctests of the two methods for example behaviors.

Parameters:

• pos (int) -- The position to search.

• text (str) -- The text to analyze.

• quoted (bool) -- Whether to take quotes into account or not.

Return type:

int

poezio.common.find_delayed_tag(message)

Check if a message is delayed or not.

Parameters:

message (slixmpp.Message) -- The message to check.

Returns:

A tuple containing (True, the datetime) or (False, None)

Return type:

tuple

poezio.common.format_gaming_string(infos)

Construct a string from a dict containing "user gaming" information. (for now, only use address and name)

Parameters:

infos (dict) -- Gaming information

Returns:

The formatted string

Return type:

str

poezio.common.format_tune_string(infos)

Contruct a string from a dict created from an "User tune" event.

Parameters:

infos (dict) -- Tune information

Returns:

The formatted string

Return type:

str

poezio.common.get_base64_from_file(path)

Convert the content of a file to base64

Parameters:

path (str) -- The path of the file to convert.

Returns:

A tuple of (encoded data, mime type, sha1 hash) if the file exists and does not exceeds the upper size limit of 16384.

Returns:

(None, None, error message) if it fails

Return type:

tuple

poezio.common.get_local_time(utc_time)

Get the local time from an UTC time

poezio.common.get_os_info()

Returns a detailed and well formated string containing information about the operating system

Return type:

str

poezio.common.get_utc_time(local_time=None)

Get the current UTC time

Parameters:

local_time (datetime) -- The current local time

Returns:

The current UTC time

poezio.common.parse_secs_to_str(duration=0)

Do the reverse operation of parse_str_to_secs().

Parse a number of seconds to a human-readable string. The string has the form XdXhXmXs. 0 units are removed.

Parameters:

duration (int) -- The duration, in seconds.

Returns:

A formatted string containing the duration.

Return type:

str

>>> parse_secs_to_str(3601)
'1h1s'

poezio.common.parse_str_to_secs(duration='')

Parse a string of with a number of d, h, m, s.

Parameters:

duration (str) -- The formatted string.

Returns:

The number of seconds represented by the string

Return type:

int

>>> parse_str_to_secs("1d3m1h")
90180

poezio.common.safeJID(*args, **kwargs)

Construct a slixmpp.JID object from a string.

Used to avoid tracebacks during is stringprep fails (fall back to a JID with an empty string).

poezio.common.shell_split(st)

Split a string correctly according to the quotes around the elements.

Parameters:

st (str) -- The string to split.

Returns:

A list of the different of the string.

Return type:

list

>>> shell_split('"sdf 1" "toto 2"')
['sdf 1', 'toto 2']