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+import re
+import unicodedata
+import codecs
+
+import six
+
+
+def always_bytes(unicode_or_bytes, *encode_args):
+ if isinstance(unicode_or_bytes, six.text_type):
+ return unicode_or_bytes.encode(*encode_args)
+ return unicode_or_bytes
+
+
+def native(s, *encoding_opts):
+ """
+ Convert :py:class:`bytes` or :py:class:`unicode` to the native
+ :py:class:`str` type, using latin1 encoding if conversion is necessary.
+
+ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/#a-note-on-string-types
+ """
+ if not isinstance(s, (six.binary_type, six.text_type)):
+ raise TypeError("%r is neither bytes nor unicode" % s)
+ if six.PY3:
+ if isinstance(s, six.binary_type):
+ return s.decode(*encoding_opts)
+ else:
+ if isinstance(s, six.text_type):
+ return s.encode(*encoding_opts)
+ return s
+
+
+def clean_bin(s, keep_spacing=True):
+ """
+ Cleans binary data to make it safe to display.
+
+ Args:
+ keep_spacing: If False, tabs and newlines will also be replaced.
+ """
+ if isinstance(s, six.text_type):
+ if keep_spacing:
+ keep = u" \n\r\t"
+ else:
+ keep = u" "
+ return u"".join(
+ ch if (unicodedata.category(ch)[0] not in "CZ" or ch in keep) else u"."
+ for ch in s
+ )
+ else:
+ if keep_spacing:
+ keep = (9, 10, 13) # \t, \n, \r,
+ else:
+ keep = ()
+ return b"".join(
+ six.int2byte(ch) if (31 < ch < 127 or ch in keep) else b"."
+ for ch in six.iterbytes(s)
+ )
+
+
+def safe_subn(pattern, repl, target, *args, **kwargs):
+ """
+ There are Unicode conversion problems with re.subn. We try to smooth
+ that over by casting the pattern and replacement to strings. We really
+ need a better solution that is aware of the actual content ecoding.
+ """
+ return re.subn(str(pattern), str(repl), target, *args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def bytes_to_escaped_str(data):
+ """
+ Take bytes and return a safe string that can be displayed to the user.
+
+ Single quotes are always escaped, double quotes are never escaped:
+ "'" + bytes_to_escaped_str(...) + "'"
+ gives a valid Python string.
+ """
+ # TODO: We may want to support multi-byte characters without escaping them.
+ # One way to do would be calling .decode("utf8", "backslashreplace") first
+ # and then escaping UTF8 control chars (see clean_bin).
+
+ if not isinstance(data, bytes):
+ raise ValueError("data must be bytes, but is {}".format(data.__class__.__name__))
+ # We always insert a double-quote here so that we get a single-quoted string back
+ # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29019340/why-does-python-use-different-quotes-for-representing-strings-depending-on-their
+ return repr(b'"' + data).lstrip("b")[2:-1]
+
+
+def escaped_str_to_bytes(data):
+ """
+ Take an escaped string and return the unescaped bytes equivalent.
+ """
+ if not isinstance(data, six.string_types):
+ if six.PY2:
+ raise ValueError("data must be str or unicode, but is {}".format(data.__class__.__name__))
+ raise ValueError("data must be str, but is {}".format(data.__class__.__name__))
+
+ if six.PY2:
+ if isinstance(data, unicode):
+ data = data.encode("utf8")
+ return data.decode("string-escape")
+
+ # This one is difficult - we use an undocumented Python API here
+ # as per http://stackoverflow.com/a/23151714/934719
+ return codecs.escape_decode(data)[0]
+
+
+def isBin(s):
+ """
+ Does this string have any non-ASCII characters?
+ """
+ for i in s:
+ i = ord(i)
+ if i < 9 or 13 < i < 32 or 126 < i:
+ return True
+ return False
+
+
+def isMostlyBin(s):
+ s = s[:100]
+ return sum(isBin(ch) for ch in s) / len(s) > 0.3
+
+
+def isXML(s):
+ for i in s:
+ if i in "\n \t":
+ continue
+ elif i == "<":
+ return True
+ else:
+ return False
+
+
+def clean_hanging_newline(t):
+ """
+ Many editors will silently add a newline to the final line of a
+ document (I'm looking at you, Vim). This function fixes this common
+ problem at the risk of removing a hanging newline in the rare cases
+ where the user actually intends it.
+ """
+ if t and t[-1] == "\n":
+ return t[:-1]
+ return t
+
+
+def hexdump(s):
+ """
+ Returns:
+ A generator of (offset, hex, str) tuples
+ """
+ for i in range(0, len(s), 16):
+ offset = "{:0=10x}".format(i).encode()
+ part = s[i:i + 16]
+ x = b" ".join("{:0=2x}".format(i).encode() for i in six.iterbytes(part))
+ x = x.ljust(47) # 16*2 + 15
+ yield (offset, x, clean_bin(part, False))