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# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment
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# Copyright (C) 2007-2008 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# Contains common utility functions.
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# Also initialises mime types library. You must import util before using
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# Python's builtin mimetypes module to make sure local settings are applied.
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root_dir = conf.root_dir
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"""Given a path relative to the IVLE root, makes the path relative to the
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site root using conf.root_dir. This path can be used in URLs sent to the
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return os.path.join(root_dir, path)
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def make_local_path(path):
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"""Given a path relative to the IVLE root, on the local file system, makes
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the path relative to the root using conf.ivlepath. This path can be used
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in reading files from the local file system."""
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return os.path.join(conf.ivlepath, path)
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def unmake_path(path):
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"""Given a path relative to the site root, makes the path relative to the
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IVLE root by removing conf.root_dir if it appears at the beginning. If it
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does not appear at the beginning, returns path unchanged. Also normalises
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path = os.path.normpath(path)
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root = os.path.normpath(root_dir)
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if path.startswith(root):
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# +1 to take out the slash as well
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return path[len(root)+1:]
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"""Given a path, returns a tuple consisting of the top-level directory in
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the path, and the rest of the path. Note that both items in the tuple will
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NOT begin with a slash, regardless of whether the original path did. Also
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Always returns a pair of strings, except for one special case, in which
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the path is completely empty (or just a single slash). In this case the
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return value will be (None, ''). But still always returns a pair.
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>>> split_path("home")
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>>> split_path("home/docs/files")
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('home', 'docs/files')
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>>> split_path("//home/docs/files")
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('', 'home/docs/files')
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path = os.path.normpath(path)
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# Ignore the opening slash
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if path.startswith(os.sep):
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path = path[len(os.sep):]
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if path == '' or path == '.':
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splitpath = path.split(os.sep, 1)
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if len(splitpath) == 1:
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return (splitpath[0], '')
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return tuple(splitpath)
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# Initialise mime types library
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for (ext, mimetype) in conf.mimetypes.additional_mime_types.items():
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mimetypes.add_type(mimetype, ext)