# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import socket
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def get_text(html):
"""Converts html to text, strips all tags."""
return BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser").get_text().replace(''', "'")
def parse_html(html):
"""Attempt to convert html to plain text while keeping line breaks.
Returns a list of paragraphs, each being a list of lines.
"""
paragraphs = re.split("?p[^>]*>", html)
# Convert
s to line breaks and remove empty paragraphs
paragraphs = [re.split("
", p) for p in paragraphs if p]
# Convert each line in each paragraph to plain text:
return [[get_text(l) for l in p] for p in paragraphs]
def format_content(content):
"""Given a Status contents in HTML, converts it into lines of plain text.
Returns a generator yielding lines of content.
"""
paragraphs = parse_html(content)
first = True
for paragraph in paragraphs:
if not first:
yield ""
for line in paragraph:
yield line
first = False
def domain_exists(name):
try:
socket.gethostbyname(name)
return True
except OSError:
return False