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authorFrançois Schmidts <francois.schmidts@gmail.com>2015-10-11 12:18:07 +0200
committerFrançois Schmidts <francois.schmidts@gmail.com>2016-01-26 23:46:30 +0100
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--- a/src/web/lib/utils.py
+++ b/src/web/lib/utils.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+import re
import types
import urllib
import logging
import requests
from hashlib import md5
+from flask import request, url_for
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -55,3 +57,17 @@ def try_get_icon_url(url, *splits):
def to_hash(text):
return md5(text.encode('utf8') if hasattr(text, 'encode') else text)\
.hexdigest()
+
+
+def clear_string(data):
+ """
+ Clear a string by removing HTML tags, HTML special caracters
+ and consecutive white spaces (more that one).
+ """
+ p = re.compile('<[^>]+>') # HTML tags
+ q = re.compile('\s') # consecutive white spaces
+ return p.sub('', q.sub(' ', data))
+
+
+def redirect_url(default='home'):
+ return request.args.get('next') or request.referrer or url_for(default)
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