# module 'string' -- A collection of string operations # Warning: most of the code you see here isn't normally used nowadays. # At the end of this file most functions are replaced by built-in # functions imported from built-in module "strop". # Some strings for ctype-style character classification whitespace = ' \t\n\r\v\f' lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' letters = lowercase + uppercase digits = '0123456789' hexdigits = digits + 'abcdef' + 'ABCDEF' octdigits = '01234567' # Case conversion helpers _idmap = '' for i in range(256): _idmap = _idmap + chr(i) _lower = _idmap[:ord('A')] + lowercase + _idmap[ord('Z')+1:] _upper = _idmap[:ord('a')] + uppercase + _idmap[ord('z')+1:] _swapcase = _upper[:ord('A')] + lowercase + _upper[ord('Z')+1:] del i # Backward compatible names for exceptions index_error = ValueError atoi_error = ValueError atof_error = ValueError atol_error = ValueError # convert UPPER CASE letters to lower case def lower(s): res = '' for c in s: res = res + _lower[ord(c)] return res # Convert lower case letters to UPPER CASE def upper(s): res = '' for c in s: res = res + _upper[ord(c)] return res # Swap lower case letters and UPPER CASE def swapcase(s): res = '' for c in s: res = res + _swapcase[ord(c)] return res # Strip leading and trailing tabs and spaces def strip(s): i, j = 0, len(s) while i < j and s[i] in whitespace: i = i+1 while i < j and s[j-1] in whitespace: j = j-1 return s[i:j] # Split a string into a list of space/tab-separated words # NB: split(s) is NOT the same as splitfields(s, ' ')! def split(s): res = [] i, n = 0, len(s) while i < n: while i < n and s[i] in whitespace: i = i+1 if i == n: break j = i while j < n and s[j] not in whitespace: j = j+1 res.append(s[i:j]) i = j return res # Split a list into fields separated by a given string # NB: splitfields(s, ' ') is NOT the same as split(s)! # splitfields(s, '') returns [s] (in analogy with split() in nawk) def splitfields(s, sep): res = [] nsep = len(sep) if nsep == 0: return [s] ns = len(s) i = j = 0 while j+nsep <= ns: if s[j:j+nsep] == sep: res.append(s[i:j]) i = j = j + nsep else: j = j + 1 res.append(s[i:]) return res # Join words with spaces between them def join(words): return joinfields(words, ' ') # Join fields with separator def joinfields(words, sep): res = '' for w in words: res = res + (sep + w) return res[len(sep):] # Find substring, raise exception if not found def index(s, sub, i = 0): res = find(s, sub, i) if res < 0: raise ValueError, 'substring not found in string.index' return res # Find last substring, raise exception if not found def rindex(s, sub, i = 0): res = rfind(s, sub, i) if res < 0: raise ValueError, 'substring not found in string.index' return res # Count non-overlapping occurrences of substring def count(s, sub, i = 0): if i < 0: i = max(0, i + len(s)) n = len(sub) m = len(s) + 1 - n if n == 0: return m-i r = 0 while i < m: if sub == s[i:i+n]: r = r+1 i = i+n else: i = i+1 return r # Find substring, return -1 if not found def find(s, sub, i = 0): if i < 0: i = max(0, i + len(s)) n = len(sub) m = len(s) + 1 - n while i < m: if sub == s[i:i+n]: return i i = i+1 return -1 # Find last substring, return -1 if not found def rfind(s, sub, i = 0): if i < 0: i = max(0, i + len(s)) n = len(sub) m = len(s) + 1 - n r = -1 while i < m: if sub == s[i:i+n]: r = i i = i+1 return r # Convert string to float def atof(str): import regex sign = '' s = str if s and s[0] in '+-': sign = s[0] s = s[1:] if not s: raise ValueError, 'non-float argument to string.atof' while s[0] == '0' and len(s) > 1 and s[1] in digits: s = s[1:] if regex.match('[0-9]*\(\.[0-9]*\)?\([eE][-+]?[0-9]+\)?', s) != len(s): raise ValueError, 'non-float argument to string.atof' try: return float(eval(sign + s)) except SyntaxError: raise ValueError, 'non-float argument to string.atof' # Convert string to integer def atoi(str, base=10): if base != 10: # We only get here if strop doesn't define atoi() raise ValueError, "this string.atoi doesn't support base != 10" sign = '' s = str if s and s[0] in '+-': sign = s[0] s = s[1:] if not s: raise ValueError, 'non-integer argument to string.atoi' while s[0] == '0' and len(s) > 1: s = s[1:] for c in s: if c not in digits: raise ValueError, 'non-integer argument to string.atoi' return eval(sign + s) # Convert string to long integer def atol(str, base=10): if base != 10: # We only get here if strop doesn't define atol() raise ValueError, "this string.atol doesn't support base != 10" sign = '' s = str if s and s[0] in '+-': sign = s[0] s = s[1:] if not s: raise ValueError, 'non-integer argument to string.atol' while s[0] == '0' and len(s) > 1: s = s[1:] for c in s: if c not in digits: raise ValueError, 'non-integer argument to string.atol' return eval(sign + s + 'L') # Left-justify a string def ljust(s, width): n = width - len(s) if n <= 0: return s return s + ' '*n # Right-justify a string def rjust(s, width): n = width - len(s) if n <= 0: return s return ' '*n + s # Center a string def center(s, width): n = width - len(s) if n <= 0: return s half = n/2 if n%2 and width%2: # This ensures that center(center(s, i), j) = center(s, j) half = half+1 return ' '*half + s + ' '*(n-half) # Zero-fill a number, e.g., (12, 3) --> '012' and (-3, 3) --> '-03' # Decadent feature: the argument may be a string or a number # (Use of this is deprecated; it should be a string as with ljust c.s.) def zfill(x, width): if type(x) == type(''): s = x else: s = `x` n = len(s) if n >= width: return s sign = '' if s[0] in ('-', '+'): sign, s = s[0], s[1:] return sign + '0'*(width-n) + s # Expand tabs in a string. # Doesn't take non-printing chars into account, but does understand \n. def expandtabs(s, tabsize): res = line = '' for c in s: if c == '\t': c = ' '*(tabsize - len(line)%tabsize) line = line + c if c == '\n': res = res + line line = '' return res + line # Try importing optional built-in module "strop" -- if it exists, # it redefines some string operations that are 100-1000 times faster. # It also defines values for whitespace, lowercase and uppercase # that match 's definitions. try: from strop import * letters = lowercase + uppercase except ImportError: pass # Use the original, slow versions