core/misc.py

   1 # synarere -- a highly modular and stable IRC bot.
   2 # Copyright (C) 2010 Michael Rodriguez.
   3 # Rights to this code are documented in docs/LICENSE.
   4
   5 '''Miscellaneous functions.'''
   6
   7 def stripunicode(string):
   8     '''Strip unicode from a string.'''
   9     if isinstance(string, str):
  10         # If the string is just a string without any unicode, just return it.
  11         return string
  12
  13     if isinstance(string, unicode):
  14         # The string *is* unicode, let's strip stuff from it.
  15         # fancy quotes
  16         string = string.replace(u'\u201c', u'"')
  17         string = string.replace(u'\u201d', u'"')
  18         string = string.replace(u'\u2018', u"'")
  19         string = string.replace(u'\u2019', u"'")
  20         # ellipsis
  21         string = string.replace(u'\u2026', u'...')
  22         # return the string encoded into ascii
  23         return string.encode()