gs.core 2.1.1

Useful utility functions.

Author:	Michael JasonSmith
Contact:	Michael JasonSmith <[e-mail]>
Date:	2015-10-15
Organization:	GroupServer.org
Copyright:	This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License by OnlineGroups.Net.

Introduction

This product contains some useful functions. They were originally written as part of the GroupServer project, but they are totally independent of GroupServer.

curr_time:

Get the current time, in UTC, as a datetime.datetime.

to_ascii:

Convert a string to ASCII, with a reasonable chance of success.

to_unicode_or_bust:

Convert a string instance to a Unicode instance, with reasonable chance of success.

comma_comma_and:

Turn a list of strings into a single strings, with commas.

to_id:

Create a random identifier, using a string as a seed.

convert_int2b62:

Convert an integer to a base-62 encoded string.

mailto:

Generate a correctly-quoted mailto: URI.

Resources

• Documentation: http://gscore.readthedocs.org/
• Code repository: https://github.com/groupserver/gs.core
• Questions and comments to http://groupserver.org/groups/development
• Report bugs at https://redmine.iopen.net/projects/groupserver