Add a simple prompt thing to twitter cmdline.

[z_archive/twitter.git] / twitter / util.py

"""
Internal utility functions.

`htmlentitydecode` came from here:
    http://wiki.python.org/moin/EscapingHtml
"""


import re
from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint

def htmlentitydecode(s):
    return re.sub(
        '&(%s);' % '|'.join(name2codepoint),
        lambda m: unichr(name2codepoint[m.group(1)]), s)

def smrt_input(globals_, locals_, ps1=">>> ", ps2="... "):
    inputs = []
    while True:
        if inputs:
            prompt = ps2
        else:
            prompt = ps1
        inputs.append(raw_input(prompt))
        try:
            ret = eval('\n'.join(inputs), globals_, locals_)
            if ret:
                print ret
            return
        except SyntaxError:
            pass

__all__ = ["htmlentitydecode", "smrt_input"]