forked-synapse/synapse/util/stringutils.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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import random
import string

from six.moves import range

_string_with_symbols = (
    string.digits + string.ascii_letters + ".,;:^&*-_+=#~@"
)


def random_string(length):
    return ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in range(length))


def random_string_with_symbols(length):
    return ''.join(
        random.choice(_string_with_symbols) for _ in range(length)
    )


def is_ascii(s):
    try:
        s.encode("ascii")
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        return False
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        return False
    else:
        return True


def to_ascii(s):
    """Converts a string to ascii if it is ascii, otherwise leave it alone.

    If given None then will return None.
    """
    if s is None:
        return None

    try:
        return s.encode("ascii")
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        return s