def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
""" Find the xpath xpath[@key=val] """
assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z]+$', key)
- assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z0-9@\s]*$', val)
+ assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z0-9@\s:._]*$', val)
expr = xpath + u"[@%s='%s']" % (key, val)
return node.find(expr)
else:
return today + delta
return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, "%Y%m%d").date()
+def hyphenate_date(date_str):
+ """
+ Convert a date in 'YYYYMMDD' format to 'YYYY-MM-DD' format"""
+ match = re.match(r'^(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)$', date_str)
+ if match is not None:
+ return '-'.join(match.groups())
+ else:
+ return date_str
+
class DateRange(object):
"""Represents a time interval between two dates"""
def __init__(self, start=None, end=None):
return None
-def fix_xml_all_ampersand(xml_str):
+def fix_xml_ampersands(xml_str):
"""Replace all the '&' by '&' in XML"""
- return xml_str.replace(u'&', u'&')
+ return re.sub(
+ r'&(?!amp;|lt;|gt;|apos;|quot;|#x[0-9a-fA-F]{,4};|#[0-9]{,4};)',
+ u'&',
+ xml_str)
def setproctitle(title):
def prepend_extension(filename, ext):
name, real_ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
return u'{0}.{1}{2}'.format(name, ext, real_ext)
+
+
+def check_executable(exe, args=[]):
+ """ Checks if the given binary is installed somewhere in PATH, and returns its name.
+ args can be a list of arguments for a short output (like -version) """
+ try:
+ subprocess.Popen([exe] + args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
+ except OSError:
+ return False
+ return exe