Module functions

This module holds some utility functions.

Author: Johannes Schwenk

Copyright: 2010, Johannes Schwenk

Version: 1.0

Date: 2010-09-15

Functions

int

du(start_path=u'.')
Computes the size of the files in the file system subtree starting at start_path . source code

unescape(text)
Unescape HTML Entities # © October 28, 2006 | Fredrik Lundh

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parse_date(date)
Parses date strings of formats:

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Function Details

Computes the size of the files in the file system subtree starting at start_path .

Unescape HTML Entities # © October 28, 2006 | Fredrik Lundh

http://effbot.org/zone/re-sub.htm#unescape-html

Removes HTML or XML character references and entities from a text string.

Parameters:

Returns:

The plain text, as a Unicode string, if necessary.

Parses date strings of formats:

Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994

Parameters:

Returns:

A datetime.datetime object or None if parsing failed.