Utilities - cihai.utils

Utility and helper methods for cihai.

cihai.utils.supports_wide()[source]

Return affirmative if python interpreter supports wide characters.

Return type:

bool

Returns:

True if python supports wide character sets

Return type:

bool

cihai.utils.import_string(import_name, silent=False)[source]

Import an object based on a string.

This is useful if you want to use import paths as endpoints or something similar. An import path can be specified either in dotted notation (xml.sax.saxutils.escape) or with a colon as object delimiter (xml.sax.saxutils:escape).

If silent is True the return value will be None if the import fails.

Return type:

Any

Parameters:

  • import_name (string) – the dotted name for the object to import.

  • silent (bool) – if set to True import errors are ignored and None is returned instead.

Return type:

imported object

Raises:

cihai.exc.ImportStringError (ImportError, cihai.exc.CihaiException) –

Notes

This is from werkzeug.utils d36aaf1 on May 23, 2022, LICENSE BSD. https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug

Changes: - Exception raised is cihai.exc.ImportStringError - Format with black