Welcome Pelican 2.0 ! Refactoring of the internals to be more extensible.

--HG--
rename : pelican/bloggenerator.py => pelican/generators.py

pelican/utils.py

@@ -1,4 +1,51 @@
 import re
+from datetime import datetime
+from codecs import open as _open
+
+def update_dict(mapping, key, value):
+    """Update a dict intenal list
+
+    :param mapping: the mapping to update
+    :param key: the key of the mapping to update.
+    :param value: the value to append to the list.
+    """
+    if key not in mapping:
+        mapping[key] = []
+    mapping[key].append(value)
+
+
+def get_date(string):
+    """Return a datetime object from a string.
+
+    If no format matches the given date, raise a ValuEerror
+    """
+    formats = ['%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M', '%Y-%m-%d', '%Y/%m/%d',
+               '%d/%m/%Y']
+    for date_format in formats:
+        try:
+            return datetime.strptime(string, date_format)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+    raise ValueError("'%s' is not a valid date" % string)
+
+
+def open(filename):
+    """Open a file and return it's content"""
+    return _open(filename, encoding='utf-8').read()
+
+
+def slugify(value):
+    """
+    Normalizes string, converts to lowercase, removes non-alpha characters,
+    and converts spaces to hyphens.
+
+    Took from django sources.
+    """
+    import unicodedata
+    value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+    value = unicode(re.sub('[^\w\s-]', '', value).strip().lower())
+    return re.sub('[-\s]+', '-', value)
+
 
 def truncate_html_words(s, num, end_text='...'):
     """Truncates HTML to a certain number of words (not counting tags and
@@ -13,6 +60,7 @@ def truncate_html_words(s, num, end_text='...'):
     if length <= 0:
         return u''
     html4_singlets = ('br', 'col', 'link', 'base', 'img', 'param', 'area', 'hr', 'input')
+
     # Set up regular expressions
     re_words = re.compile(r'&.*?;|<.*?>|(\w[\w-]*)', re.U)
     re_tag = re.compile(r'<(/)?([^ ]+?)(?: (/)| .*?)?>')
@@ -65,3 +113,4 @@ def truncate_html_words(s, num, end_text='...'):
         out += '</%s>' % tag
     # Return string
     return out
+