urlsafe_b64encode is replaced by SHA1 for id of articles.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/source/utils.py b/source/utils.py
index d1d2c684..da68550b 100755
--- a/source/utils.py
+++ b/source/utils.py
@@ -64,20 +64,6 @@ url_finders = [ \
     re.compile("'\\<((mailto:)|)[-A-Za-z0-9\\.]+@[-A-Za-z0-9\\.]+"), \
 ]
 
-from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode, urlsafe_b64decode
-
-def uri_b64encode(s):
-    """
-    Encode an URI in base 64 and remove the final '='.
-    """
-    return urlsafe_b64encode(s).strip('=')
-
-def uri_b64decode(s):
-    """
-    Decode a base 64 encoded URI.
-    """
-    return urlsafe_b64decode(s + '=' * (4 - len(s) % 4))
-
 def detect_url_errors(list_of_urls):
     """
     Detect URL errors.