Changeset 294:17a4cdcc0619 for tools.py

Timestamp:

2007-08-26 19:27:44 (1 year ago)

Author:

Stefan Schwarzer <sschwarzer@sschwarzer.net>

branch:

default

Message:

Changed implementation to generate an anchor from an URL path and put
it into module `tools.py`.

Files:

• tools.py (modified) (2 diffs)

tools.py

@@ -21 +21 @@
-# SOFTWARE.
-
+import md5
-import os
-import re
@@ -41 +42 @@
-    return os.path.abspath(path)
-
+def url_to_anchor(url):
+    """
+    Return a string, specific for the URL `url`, which is usable as an
+    anchor in HTML links.
+    """
+    # this implementation has a _very_ small chance to reuse the same
+    #  anchor for different URLs
+    return md5.new(url).hexdigest()[:10]
+