bind

Version 3.0.0

bind is a function that joins strings in a way we often need

Usage

from bind import bind
# False and None are dropped, but 0 and other falsey things are not
things_to_bind = ['castable', 'to', 's t r i n g.', 0, False, None, 45, '"hi"', 0.25]

# defaults for urllib.parse.quote_plus, leaving these out would change nothing
kwargs = dict(safe='', encoding=None, errors=None) 

# by default, use slash separator and urlencoding
bind(*things_to_bind, **kwargs)
'castable/to/s+t+r+i+n+g./0/45/%22hi%22/0.25'

# turn off url encoding
bind(*things_to_bind, url=False, **kwargs)
'castable/to/s t r i n g./0/45/"hi"/0.25'

# result is the same if you pass in a list
bind(things_to_bind, url=False, **kwargs)
'castable/to/s t r i n g./0/45/"hi"/0.25'

# change separator --- note that it strips the other . in things_to_bind[2]
bind(*things_to_bind, sep='.')
'castable.to.s+t+r+i+n+g.0.45.%22hi%22.0.25'

# pointless but possible, and will strip W, H and Y from items in iterable!
bind(*things_to_bind, sep='WHY', url=True, **kwargs)
'castableWHYtoWHYs+t+r+i+n+g.WHY0WHY45WHY%22hi%22WHY0.25'

Aside from url=bool and sep=str, all keyword arguments are passed to urllib.parse.quote_plus

Tests (300% coverage)

coverage run -m unittest
coverage report --omit=tests/*

Name               Stmts   Miss  Cover
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bind/__init__.py       2      0   100%
bind/bind.py          10      0   100%
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TOTAL                 12      0   100%