ooi/ooi/utils.py

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Copyright 2015 Spanish National Research Council
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
# a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
# under the License.
import six
import six.moves.urllib.parse as urlparse
def utf8(value):
"""Try to turn a string into utf-8 if possible.
Code is modified from the utf8 function in
http://github.com/facebook/tornado/blob/master/tornado/escape.py
"""
if isinstance(value, six.text_type):
return value.encode('utf-8')
assert isinstance(value, str)
return value
def join_url(base, parts):
"""Join several parts into a url.
:param base: the base url
:parts: parts to join into the url
"""
url = base
if not isinstance(parts, (list, tuple)):
parts = [parts]
for p in parts:
if p.startswith("/"):
# We won't get an absolute url
p = p[1:]
url = urlparse.urljoin(url, p)
return url