--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/project/scipycon/utils.py	Tue Jul 13 17:59:47 2010 +0530
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#python
+import urllib
+import datetime
+import re
+from random import randint
+
+#django
+from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
+
+def kiwipycon_quote(string, encoding="utf-8"):
+    """Encodes string to encoding before quoting.
+    """
+    return urllib.quote(string.encode(encoding))
+
+# from LFS
+def set_message_cookie(url, msg):
+    """Creates response object with given url and adds message cookie with passed
+    message.
+    """
+
+    # We just keep the message two seconds.
+    max_age = 2
+    expires = datetime.datetime.strftime(
+        datetime.datetime.utcnow() +
+        datetime.timedelta(seconds=max_age), "%a, %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S GMT")
+
+    response = HttpResponseRedirect(url)
+    response.set_cookie("message", kiwipycon_quote(msg), max_age=max_age, expires=expires)
+
+    return response
+
+# from django-snippets
+def slugify(inStr):
+    removelist = ["a", "an", "as", "at", "before", "but", "by", "for","from","is", "in", "into", "like", "of", "off", "on", "onto","per","since", "than", "the", "this", "that", "to", "up", "via","with"];
+    for a in removelist:
+        aslug = re.sub(r'\b'+a+r'\b','',inStr)
+    aslug = re.sub('[^\w\s-]', '', aslug).strip().lower()
+    aslug = re.sub('\s+', '-', aslug)
+    return len(aslug) > 50 and '%s-%d' % (aslug[:43], randint(100000,999999)) or aslug